The Missouri Crsis was about the issuse that slavery has caused.
California's request for statehood in 1850 sparked a crisis in Congress primarily due to the contentious issue of slavery. The rapid influx of settlers during the Gold Rush led California to seek admission as a free state, threatening the delicate balance between free and slave states. This prompted fierce debates and ultimately contributed to the passage of the Compromise of 1850, which aimed to address tensions by admitting California as a free state while allowing other territories to decide the slavery issue through popular sovereignty. The crisis highlighted the deepening sectional divides that would eventually lead to the Civil War.
The very first diplomatic crisis the United States ever experienced was the abolishment of slavery. This tore the country into two separate entities and caused a civil war.
William Nathan Harrell Smith has written: 'The crisis, its responsibilities and perils' -- subject(s): Politics and government, Slavery, Speeches in Congress
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.
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The immediate cause was Lincoln's election, but it had been brewing since before the Missouri Compromise. Slavery had become the most divisive aspect of American political life. Had it been dealt with at the Constitutional Convention, the civil war need not have happened, but without the slavery compromise then and there, America may not have been created as a constitutional republic.
The Russians caused it by blockading Berlin.
The American oil consumption was one of the reason that caused the 1970's energy crisis.
It kept both Kansas and Nebraska out of the Union until after the Civil War.
Iridium is the rare element that is said to have caused an ancient health crisis (extinction of the dinosaurs).