Slavery issues

Despite the fact that the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Missouri Compromise all were put into action to facilitate the settling of the slavery issue, they all ultimately simply intensified it. In the compromise of 1850 California was admitted as a free state, permanently tipping the balance. The Utah and New Mexico Territories could decide, with popular sovereignty, over slavery themselves. This imbalance struck fear into the hearts of southerners, worried for the future protection of slavery they became outraged accentuating the slavery issue. The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Missouri Compromise together exaggerate the issue. The Kansas-Nebraska Act would let slavery in Kansas and Nebraska be decided upon by popular sovereignty. The problem was that the Missouri Compromise had banned this, so the act would have to repeal it. Southerners had not thought of Kansas as a possible slave state, and thus backed the bill, but Northerners rallied against it. As northerners and southerners debated over these issues the subject of slavery was only aggravated.