The impact the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraske Act, and the Missouri Compromise had on aggravaing or ameliorating the slavery issue

The Missouri Compromise more than the Compromise of 1850 were both attempts trying to ameliorate the slavery issue and satisfy both northerners and southerners, however the Kansas-Nebraska Act disregarded both compromises and aggravated the slavery issue immensely. The Compromise of 1850 resulted from a heated discussion over the slavery issue. It made California a free state, which angered southerners, but it also created a more stringent Fugitive Slave Law. In this agreement both sides gained something they wanted, despite the fact that it threw the balance in the Senate between free and slave state off, it still preserved the union. Northerners were angered and protested the new Fugitive Slave Law, but the time the compromise gave to the North was desperately needed and enabled them to win the Civil War later on. The new Fugitive Slave Law also opened the northerners’ eyes upon the slavery issue and promoted more abolitionists to be created and fight for their cause. The Kansas-Nebraska Act sliced the Nebraska Territory, which lay over the 36°30’ line, into two States each subject to popular sovereignty. The bill was proposed by Douglass in order to gain support from the South, which he did, and president Pierce, who was under the thumb other southern influence, signed it. The compromise aggravated the slavery issue, because it angered northerners against the south and it went against the Missouri Compromise, which had kept the slavery issue in balance and under control.