Answer:
Popular sovereignty
Explanation:
The Missouri Compromise kept the amount of slave states and free states balanced in America. However, the Kansas-Nebraska Act reapeled the Missouri Comp. because it allowed the states to decided if they wanted to be slave or free based on popular sovereignty.
Patriots supported the views of Thomas Paine.
I don't think it would have a direct bearing on the outcome.....
The main speaker for the event was Edward Everett NOT AB LINCON