. Slaves now made up one-third of the Souths population. The 1850 Compromise did one other thing, it threw out the Missouri Compromise of 1820 eliminating the 3036 line. After the Fugitive Slave bill passed, there was an abundant hatred of slavery. In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowes novel, Uncle Toms Cabin was published depicting a slave escaping from slavery, the breakup of many slave families and marriages, and the effects of slavery on blacks. Stowes work created an uproar. The South claimed that the slaves were treated much better than described in the book. After they read the book, and saw the play, many northerners had the idea that they must stop the fugitive slave bill. They were unaware that Uncle Toms Cabin resembled what Stowe was really doing, helping slaves escape through the Underground Railroad. The Kansas- Nebraska act of 1854 repealed the Missouri compromise of 1820. the Missouri compromise prohibited slavery in territories north of 36 30, and stated that the inhabitants of the territories themselves should decide the legality of slaveholding. This act was sponsored by Democratic senator, Stephen A. Douglas from Illinois. Douglas hoped to simplify construction of the transcontinental railroad through these states rather than through the southern part of the country. The removal of the restrictions on the expansions of slavery ensured southern support for the bill, which was signed into law by president Franklin Pierce on May 30, 1854. Another political party was forming that did not want to abolish slavery, but they wanted to keep it out of new territories. This party was the Republican Party which came about as a result of the splitting of the Whigs. The Republicans were not abolitionists like the Whigs, but the southerners saw them as a threat and as people out to destroy their way of life. But one of the last main conflicts that lead to succession was the presidential election of 1860. The ne...
