Answer to Question #186798 in History for person

Question

 Why did legislative efforts dealing with slavery and expansion fail to avoid a constitutional crisis? 

Answer 1

It failed because after they had Compromised with the system and painstakingly negotiated for the establishment of a package of bills, prohibited the slave trade in Washington. D.C, it later compelled Northerners to return fugitive slaves from the South to the owners they had escaped from.