The head of government under a Parliamentary system is known as prime minister.
The parliamentary system is a democratic form of government. The prime minister is the person who runs a cabinet and is the head of the ministers in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system.
Nowadays, a country which has this kind of government is Australia, which counts on a Parliament which consists of the Queen and two Houses (the Senate and the House of Representatives).
They didn't do much at all to help anything besides speed up the Civil War. Each act or compromise just pushed the divide between the north and the south even more apart