The main argument was that China's main priority was economic growth, and economic growth required political stability. The democracy movement was flawed because it promoted radicalism and revolution which put the gains that China had made into jeopardy.
Finally, and most controversially, a Fugitive Slave<span> Law</span>was<span> passed, requiring northerners to return runaway</span>slaves<span> to their owners under penalty of law. The</span>Compromise of 1850<span> overturned the Missouri</span>Compromise<span> and left the overall issue of </span>slavery unsettled<span>.</span>
