The Kansas-Nebraska act was a compromise to allow states to use Popular Sovereignty to determine whether they were a free or slave state. Judging by the video and from what you have read about the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850, did compromise work? Explain your response.

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Given the continued tensions and eventual outbreak of the Civil War following the Kansas-Nebraska Act, it can be argued that compromise did not work effectively in addressing the issue of slavery. The compromises made were unable to reconcile the deeply entrenched differences between the North and South, ultimately leading to further division and conflict.