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It is because more and more people in the North where helping slaves escape to the North. Making it easier for slaves to run away... Once in the North many slaves would begin a new life.... and the Southern states had no power to remove a former slaves because there was no laws to protect the property rights of Southern Slave owners...
The Kansas Nebraska Act did help keep the balance involving sectionalism and the North and South, but only by helping the North. Many Southerners were actually quite agrivated at the though of Congress standing up for the North, and this was when the first whispers of Sectionalism came into play.
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The Southerners criticized the carpetbaggers. Why? well because the carpetbaggers were renovating the South as if they were bringing parts of the North in order to develop South as the North
the proviso would upset the balance of power between the north and the south