Use the passage to answer the question. "The legislative package known as the Compromise of 1850 postponed the Civil War by a decade. However, like the 1820 Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850 failed to resolve the question of slavery in a meaningful way. Over the course of the 1850s, the inadequacies of both measures were made painfully clear. 'Popular sovereignty' undermined the Missouri compromise by suggesting the earlier division of the country along the thirty- sixth parallel into free states and slave states no longer applied. Indeed, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 permitted slavery. The resulting bloodshed in Kansas, like later incidents at Harper's Ferry, presaged the violent conflict of the Civil War." -Daniel Webster, Seventh of March speech What is the main idea of Daniel Webster's speech about Popular Sovereignty? that it expanded slavery to the northern free states. that it forced slaves who had escaped to be returned to a slave state. Othat it reopened the debate over the border between free and slave states. that it upheld the efforts of the compromise to maintain an equal balance of free and slave states.
