Explain why the issue of admitting Missouri to the Union precipitated a major national crisis.?

Question

Why did North and South each agree to the terms of the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 1

Arithmetic.  One more than a majority of Northern states

Answer 2

Because the majority of people who lived in Missouri at the time were LDS (Mormons).  The Mormons lived together, worked together, and VOTED together.  The Mormons would have been able to control the Government of Missouri.

That's about the time the extermination order (that means kill all the Mormons) was sent out by the U.S. Government.  Mormons were killed and driven out from Missouri, and went to Illinios, where the same thing happened.  Eventually the Mormons ened up in Utah (still with the extermination order).

Mormons are the ONLY religion the U.S. Government has ever put out an extermination order on.  If Mormons had been left alone in Missouri, and allowed to gain even more power, it is completely possible they would have been able to elect a man to be President of the U.S.

~Garnet

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P.S. The Mormons wanted to free the slaves, so it was one of the reasons they were so hated in the South.

Answer 3

It all had to do with the balance of power between free states and slave states.  At that time there were an equal number of free states vs slave states.  That give both sides of the issue equal representation in the US Senate, so the Congress could really not legislate away slavery.