What was the fundamental question addressed in each of these congressional acts?
Should the U.S. expand westward?
Should states be allowed to nullify federal laws?
Should slave labor be allowed in new states?
Should states be able to secede from the Union?
The fundamental question addressed in each of these congressional acts was whether or not slave labor should be allowed in new states. The Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act all dealt with the issue of slavery and its expansion into newly acquired territories and states. These acts were all attempts to address the growing tensions between the North and the South over the issue of slavery and its impact on the nation's future.
