kansas. would you write becomes the closest thing to a national roof room on slavery. so what is playing out on the grounds in kansas question right. >> yes, so the hope of the forces opposed to slavery was that if slavery is contained, if it's not allowed to spread, that eventually will die out. because, upon slavery and people understood what made slavery profitable in virginia in the east, and the eastern play states, was the fact that there was a market for slaves in the west. take away that market of expansion, and then slavery would become an economical and the slaveholders themselves would decide hey okay, this isn't working anymore. bring to be done. but, that hope was spoiled when the west was opened to slavery. now, the west was not supposed to be open to slavery in 1820. there's a compromise between the northern states and the seven states. the missouri compromise and it had to do with the admission missouri's union. missouri was allowed to enter the union as a slave state but an agreement was made that the rest of the western territories, part of the louisiana purchase, slavery would be forever forbidden from the northern part of the whizzing a purchase. including, what would become kansas territory. but in 1854, stephen douglas democratic senator from illinois, abraham lakin's home state. decided to push through a measure called the kansas nebraska act. in this act repealed that part of the missouri compromise. in allowed to missouri to be open, excuse me, kansas to be open to the possibility of slavery. under the principle of what douglas called popular sovereignty, a great name. misleading, but a great name you could sell it. because it simply said that kansas territory is open to whoever wants to come and settle it. and when there are enough settlers there, to justify forming estates, then the people there will call a constitutional convention and if the convention says the state of kansas shall not have slavery. then the state of transition off slavery. if the people the constitutional convention say that kansas should have slavery, then there will be slavery. in a democracy, what could be better than that? well, and fact what happened was, turned out that this kan