2.  The argument began with Missouri becoming a state. One state entering the Union would upset the balance of Free States vs Slave States.  This also brings up the issue of what if other territory out West starts to become states too? Would they be Free or Slave states?  To compromise, they agreed that Missouri could be a Slave state if the North got to make Maine its own Free state to balance it out.

3.  “This momentous question of slavery, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled one with terror. I considered it at once the knell (death bell) of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, only for the moment…”  Jefferson’s unimpressed face^

4. TTalk about secession has already begun by this point. IIn this latest attempt to keep the peace, the Compromise of 1850 delegates agreed on the following: CCalifornia would be a Free State SSlave Trade was banned in Washington D.C. BBut the Fugitive Slave Act became stronger for the South

5.  The Missouri Compromise has been keeping the peace for the past 34 years, but peace is over rated right? Lets mix it up.  With Kansas and Nebraska becoming official U.S. territories the argument of whether they should be a free or slave territory began again  Kansas and Nebraska are above Missouri Compromise line (South says that’s not fair)  So they agree that people in those territories can vote on whether they are a Free or Slave State.  This leads to politicians from both sides flooding these two territories, and they begin to literally fight over the territory in essentially a prequel to the War