The Compromise of 1850 -Jefferson Davis becomes president of the seceded southern states known as the "Confederate States of America." -The Fugitive Slave Act, -Hawaii could have become a state in 1854, but it took another 100 years! Settlers begin to fight over whether or not newly acquired territories should or should not allow slavery. -The Kansas-Nebraska Act, -Bleeding Kansas, -"Free Soiler" thinking, -The Dred Scott Decision, John Brown's Raid and many other issues that contributed to the increasing tensions between the North and South during the turbulent 1850s.