Technological advances increased profit and productivity
<span> the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation </span>Act<span> of 1987 (both often known as </span>Gramm–Rudman<span>) were "the first binding spending constraints on the federal budget".</span>
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty. Kansas with slavery would violate the Missouri Compromise, which had kept the Union from falling apart for the last thirty-four years. The long-standing compromise would have to be repealed
