The correct answer to this open question is the following.
To what extent was any level of the government (national, state, or local) of 1786-87 able to carry out the functions for which government is established?
Well, the big issue in those years was that the Articles of Confederation -the first form of Constitution in the United States- left a weak central government that was very limited. It only could manage the post office and deal with the Native American Indian tribe's issues, among other minor things. The states remained sovereign and had more power. The states could collect money through taxation. And if the central government needed money, it had to ask for it from the states.
To what extent were the purpose(s) of government listed in the Preamble threatened by anarchy during this period?
The risk was major and the government realized this with the incidents of the Shay Rebellion in Massachusetts. The central government could not raise an army, and the Shay Rebellion was a tough lesson to learn.
That is why the delegates of the states participated in the Constitutional Convention of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the summer of 1787, to create a new form of government based in a new Constitution.
Answer:
The repeal of the commitment to Missouri affected Kansas because it allowed for an open conflict between abolitionists and slaveholders.
Explanation:
The Missouri Compromise, also called the 1820 Commitments, was an agreement passed in 1820 between pro-slavery and pro-abolitionist groups in the United States of America, primarily involving the regulation of slave labor in the western territories.
In 1850, the Missouri Compromise goes into crisis. California wanted to enter the Union as a free state, but it was located south of the parallel of 36 ° 30 '- that is, between the slave states. The war seemed close, but then a new agreement emerged: California was admitted with a free state, the other free states were forced to repatriate fugitive slaves, and New Mexico and Utah gained bylaws of territories and not states, that is, without own laws against or in favor of slavery.
The definitive crisis of the Missouri Compromise occurred in 1854 with the Kansas-Nebraska bill, authored by Douglas Douglas of Ilhinóis. Douglas proposed the Organization of Kansas and Nebraska as territories with freedom of choice, by popular decision, between being or not slave state. And as I encouraged the occupation, Douglas suggested that the railroad, still under construction, cut off the two territories. Congress passed the propositions, nullifying the Missouri Compromise. The confrontation between free states and slave states became then open and declared.
