Clay pressured half of the Southerners to vote for the passage of the bill. This eventually ended in a stalemate on March 4, 1819. The House held its free state position, while the South held it’s non-restricting ways. The bill was controversial, because many believed the country would be divided. The Missouri Compromise was repealed in 1854 by the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and during Dred Scott vs. Sandford it was made unconstitutional. Tensions over slavery laws eventually led to the Civil