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 Harpers Ferry, presaged the violent conflict of the Civil War." - Daniel Webster, Seventh of March speech Use the passage to answer the quesiton. What is javascript:void(0)meant by "popular sovereignty undermining the Missouri Compromise?" (2 points) Responses It means that it upheld the efforts of the compromise to maintain an equal balance of free and slave states. It means that it upheld the efforts of the compromise to maintain an equal balance of free and slave states. It means that it reopened the debate over the border between free and slave states. It means that it reopened the debate over the border between free and slave states. It means that it expanded slavery to the northern free states. It means that it expanded slavery to the northern free states. It means that it forced enslaved people who had escapted to be returned to a slave state.

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The correct response is: It means that it reopened the debate over the border between free and slave states.

"Popular sovereignty," which allowed the settlers of a territory to determine whether it would be a free or slave state, contradicted the clear divisions established by the Missouri Compromise, leading to increasing tensions and conflict over the issue of slavery in the territories.