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The Kansas-Nebraska Act sparked a quasi civil war in miniture when Northerners and Southerners poured into Kansas to affect the vote. In essence Kansas had two governments one pro slavery and one anti slavery.
And finally Crittenden's Compromise fails, and on February 8, 1861 the southern states decided to secede from the Union to form the Confederacy. Choosing Jefferson Davis as president.
Compromise came from Henry Clay of Kentucky. The hardest for the Northerners to accept was the Fugitive Slave Act.
The underground railroad led by Harriot Tubbman was one of the ways that slaves from the South were able to make there escape.
Wilmot Proviso passed in the House of Reps provided that no slavery be allowed in the newly acquired lands from Mexico.
Popular Sovereignty said that the citizens of each new state should decide for themselves on whether or not to allow slavery. This would take it off the political table and also appeared democratic.
With the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill that set of the California Gold Rush. Slavery again took center stage.