Question

the Missouri compromise of 1820 and the compromise of 1850 were attempts by the federal government to

Answer 1

This is to reduce the conflict over slavery. Missouri sought to become state and the government wanted to choose if it would be a free or slave state; the government anxious about the same picture in the Senate. The compromise of 1850 was made to please Southerners, Clay suggested that law that would help them arrest fugitive slaves; finally clay suggested that popular sovereignty would control the issue of slavery in the Utah and New Mexico lands.