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1) The Nebraska-Kansas Compromise was in 1854 when Stephen Douglas of Illinois pushed the legislation through.

2) The Democrat Party split into two factions, the North and South, as was evidenced in 1852 and 1856.

The crisis for the Democratic Party came in the late 1850s as Democrats increasingly rejected national policies demanded by the Southern Democrats.

When the new Republican Party formed in 1854 on the basis of refusing to tolerate the expansion of slavery into the territories, many northern Democrats (especially Free Soilders from 1848) joined it.

The Missouri Compromise was in 1820. The Compromise of 1850, which led to the issue of whether the territories would be slave or free came to a boil following the election of Zachary Taylor, a member of the Whig Party and opposition to the Democrat Party, as president in 1848. In his first annual message to Congress, Taylor endorsed statehood for California and urged that “those exciting topics” that had caused such apprehension be left to the courts. He opposed any legislative plan that would address the problems that so agitated Northerners and Southerners, thus preventing Henry Clay from pushing ahead with another compromise plan that, he hoped, would settle the issue for at least a generation, as had the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Then Taylor died just 16 months into his term, and his successor, Millard Fillmore, saw the wisdom of Clay’s proposal and encouraged him to continue.

No the Democrats were not always in power leading up to the Civil War. A trifecta is where one party controls Congress (House and Senate) and the Presidency. Not having a trifecta makes it harder to pass legislation through for various and obvious reasons. From the start of Andrew Jackson’s Presidency until Abraham Lincoln was elected there were 16 Congressional Sessions. Each session was for two year period. In this time frame, only 9 of 16 Sessions of Congress were trifectas. Meaning that the Democrats were weakened leading up to the Civil War due to not having a trifecta. The Whigs were the direct predecessors to the Republican Party and the Jacksonians were the predecessors to the Democrat Party. The division between the North and South for the Democrats further weakened the Democrat power, as the Northern Democrats tended to side with the Whigs and later Republicans. Until well after the war, you cannot lump the Democrats as a unified bloc in DC due to the rift of the North versus South. 8 years between Andrew Jackson and Lincoln were held by a Whig President (btw this was more than 2 Presidents due to deaths).

People think that because a President is elected they control power in DC or their party does. This is not the case and has never been the case. A President that does not have two chambers of Congress aligned with him (and up to this point it has only been a him, sorry ladies and whatever else people want to call themselves) has always found the position to be extremely difficult to get things done. You cannot say that because both the upper and lower chambers of Congress fall to one party and a opposition party President a certain party controls the power. Especially leading up the Civil War where the Democrat party was intensely divided between North and South. That would be like saying all those RINOs in power give the Republicans power when Trump was in office. Yeah I laughed at that one too.

Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky, a leading statesman and member of the Whig Party known as “The Great Compromiser” for his work on the Missouri Compromise, was the primary creator of the Missouri Compromise. Fearful of the growing divide between North and South over the issue of slavery, he hoped to avoid civil war by enacting a compromise.

Famed orator and Massachusetts senator Daniel Webster, while opposed to the extension of slavery, also saw the compromise of 1850 as a way of averting national discord, and disappointed his abolitionist supporters by siding with Clay.

Anyways little boi, your information was somewhat correct but mostly wrong.

Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas and/or Border War, is officially recognized by historians as starting in 1855 and goes until 1859. (So your math is wrong and even 1854 to 1859 is not ten years) And Lincoln even made a comment on Brown’s execution, officially ending the conflict, at Harper’s Ferry saying that he agreed with Brown but could not on the violence and death.

This is a debate that rages on and to think it will never be concluded. The debate is the major cause of the Civil War as Pew Research found out that 48% of Americans believe the cause was States rights and only 38% believed it was over slavery. Yet people confuse the South’s Institution of Slavery with the individual slave for good reason. Yet, the Institution of slavery has never really been dissolved in America as the Democrats seek to bring in low paid unskilled labor illegally. Think America’s Civil War is really, really, ,over? Think again.