Southerners find themselves troubled by the 1850 compromise , but they also had a favor in the fugitive law act which granted them the right to catch escaped slaves in the north, the south and the north felt that it needed to overpower the other, with the repeal of the 1850 compromise, came the Kansas-nebraska act. This act allowed the people to decide whether the territory should be “free state” or a “slave state.” this provoked both the north and the south to send mass people to the territories in order to dominate the votes,
