Because both sides were competing for the new territories that would be admitted to the USA.
The South was the smaller half, and every new free-soil state increased the Northern majority in Congress.
So Congress found it easier to pass laws that favoured the North against the South, especially the tariffs on imports, when it was the South that needed imports most, having no manufacturing industry of their own.
The Missouri Crsis was about the issuse that slavery has caused.
The growing sectionalism over the issue of slavery
The most fundamental issues causing the sectional crisis in 1850 were the question of slavery and its expansion into new territories, the balance of power between free and slave states, and the tensions between the North and South over economic interests and political representation. These issues were exacerbated by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, which compelled Northern states to assist in the capture and return of escaped slaves, further deepening the divide between the North and South.
It made the slaves more in demand.
The national government
It was getting more difficult to create new slave-states, so the South were in danger of being out-voted in Congress, which would then pass laws unfavourable to Southern interests.
a set of rules
California's application for statehood as a free state in 1850 upset the delicate balance between free and slave states in the US Senate, leading to tensions over the expansion of slavery. This crisis ultimately culminated in the Compromise of 1850, which included provisions such as the Fugitive Slave Act and popular sovereignty in new territories to address the issue of slavery.
The Missouri Compromise was the first attempt to ease the looming crisis over slavery. It effectively prevented the spread of slavery into new states but did nothing to eliminate slavery in current slave states.
A NATIONWIDE crisis?? !!! Probably not.
There are hotlines for teenages in crisis. The website is www.pamf.org/teen/hotlines.html. There is another hotline for youth in crisis. The website is www.cocommunity.net/agency/national-youth-crisis-hotline.html.
The Missouri Crsis was about the issuse that slavery has caused.
The Crittenden Compromise was impossible for Abraham Lincoln to even consider. First of all it called for permanent slavery in the slave states with no chance of repeal once it was enacted. The Republicans were adamantly opposed to the expansion of slavery.
The Treaty of Ghent
the growing sectionalism over the issue of slavery
The growing sectionalism over the issue of slavery
The onset of war produced a national crisis.