After the defeat of Henry ClayClay’s OmnibusOmnibus bill, Stephen DouglasDouglas used a different strategy to pass the Compromise of 1850Compromise of 1850 to address the ongoing legitimacy crises. Douglas fixed dimensionality by having the Senate vote on different bills rather than linking them together. In doing so he built unique coalitions via strategic votingstrategic voting and dimension manipulation to pass his proposals in the Senate, altering the language in some bills to make them more appealing to certain blocs of legislators. Agenda control was used in the House of Representatives to present the bills in a manner that built trust with Northerners and Southerners. President FillmoreFillmore used his control over patronage appointments to get reluctant Northern representatives to vote for “the Mini Omnibus.” Northern legislators in both the House and Senate engaged in strategic nonvoting on the Fugitive Slave Law, allowing it to pass without voicing objections. While supporters of the Compromise of 1850 claimed disputes over slavery had been solved, subsequent events over the next decade (including fallout from the Fugitive Slave Law and giving new territories popular sovereigntypopular sovereignty on slavery) eventually led to the Civil War.