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Did the Compromise of 1850 end the debate on slavery?

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Many people, North and South, hailed the compromise as a final solution to the question of slavery in the territories. However, the issue reemerged in 1854 with the Kansas-Nebraska Act , and seven years later the factions were fighting the Civil War .

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