The Missouri Compromise

Question

The Compromise of 1850
The Kansas-Nebraska Act

What was the fundamental question addressed in each of these congressional acts?

Answer 1

The fundamental question addressed in each of these congressional acts was the issue of slavery and its expansion into new territories within the United States. Each of these acts dealt with the ongoing debate over the extension of slavery into new states and territories, as well as the balance of power between free states and slave states in the Union.