Question

Which of the following best summarizes why the Missouri Compromise needed to be replaced by the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 1

The Missouri Compromise needed to be replaced by the Compromise of 1850 because members of Congress wanted to end the question of slavery in the United States.

The Compromise of 1850 is a set of five bills passed by the Congress of the United States in September 1850, which appeased a political confrontation between slave states and free states. This crisis, which lasted five years, had its origin in the disagreement on the status that territories acquired after the US intervention in Mexico (1846-1848) should receive and reached its maximum degree of tension with the problem of fugitive slaves.

In short, of the three new territories annexed by the United States, California became a free state while Utah and New Mexico became slave territories. The commitment was welcomed with relief, although on each side some specific clauses were disliked.

Answer 2

The best option would be that "Members of Congress wanted to end the question of slavery in the U.S." since this was one of the many compromises meant to avert Civil War.