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Compromises of 1820 and 1850 · US History

Long-term, why is the Missouri Compromise considered a failure in preventing the Civil War?

  1. It actually expanded slavery into the North
  2. It failed to address the moral issue of slavery, offering only a temporary fix
  3. The Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional immediately after it passed
  4. A new federal law banned the U.S. from acquiring any new territory for thirty years
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Correct answer: It failed to address the moral issue of slavery, offering only a temporary fix

The compromise was a 'truce' rather than a 'settlement.' While it kept the peace for three decades, it did not resolve the underlying moral and economic conflict between free and slave labor, which resurfaced violently after the Mexican-American War.

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