How did the question of slavery emerge as a national issue?

What compromises were brokered to deal with this issue?

What drove it to continue to be debated by the federal government?

Why did slavery re-emerge as a national political issue in the late 1840s?

What reasons did opponents of slavery give for wanting to eliminate the institution, and what arguments did those who practiced slavery use to defend it?

Could there have been a better "answer" to the problem of slavery than a bloody Civil War?

The capture of large lads from Mexico in the late 1840s made slavery a national political issue.

Three-fifths compromise, an agreement reached at the United States Constitutional Convention (1787) between delegates from the Northern and Southern states that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.

Debate by the federal government had to continue because many Southerners tried to extend slavery to newly conquered lands during the Mexican-American War. Many Northerners were opposed to such a move. All former Mexican territory north and east of the Rio Grande was claimed by Texas. The passage of organic acts to create territorial governments was delayed by these problems.

Several incidents happened in the late 1840s that threw the balance off: the United States acquired new territories as a result of the Mexican War, and the issue of whether that territory would be slave or free emerged once more

Slavery was seen as an abomination and an affliction on the United States, so abolitionists made it their task to abolish it.

Yes .The Civil War was a miscalculation that should have been prevented. Politicians who are incompetent and the economy that is weakening

Step-by-step explanation

Because of the capture of large lads from Mexico in the late 1840s, slavery became a national political issue. This ushered in a time of intense tension between the North and South about whether or not to legalize slavery in the territory west of the Mississippi.

The 1850 Compromise is a compilation of five laws adopted in September 1850 to resolve the problems of slavery and territorial expansion. California applied to join the Union as a free state in 1849, possibly disrupting the balance of power in the US Senate between free and slave states. On January 29, 1850, Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions in an effort to find a compromise and prevent a crisis between the North and the South. The Fugitive Slave Act was revised and the slave trade in Washington, D.C. was abolished as part of the 1850 Compromise. In addition, California became a free state, and Utah got its own territorial government. Furthermore, an act was passed that settled a border dispute between Texas and New Mexico, as well as creating a territorial government in New Mexico.

During the Mexican-American War, a controversy arose over slavery in the colonies, with many Southerners trying to extend slavery to the newly conquered lands and many Northerners resisting such extension. Texas' claim to all former Mexican territories north and east of the Rio Grande, including areas it had never successfully controlled, complicated the debate even further. These problems stymied the passage of organic acts that would have created organized territorial governments for the land gained during the Mexican-American War.. Clay proposed a package of bills in early 1850 that would address the bulk of the urgent problems before Congress. President Zachary Taylor, an anti-slavery activist, was opposed to Clay's plan. Pro-slavery Whigs like William Seward Democrats like John C. Calhoun continued to complain about the territories in Congress, and the dispute raged on.

Several incidents happened in the late 1840s that threw the balance off: the United States acquired new territories as a result of the Mexican War, and the issue of whether that territory would be slave or free emerged once more. California, which had risen in population as a result of the gold rush, petitioned Congress to become a free state. Texas also claimed territories all the way to Santa Fe at the same time. Of course, Washington, D.C., the nation's capital, not only accepted slavery but also hosted the world's largest slave market.

Slavery was seen as an abomination and an affliction on the United States, and abolitionists made it their task to abolish it. They circulated anti-slavery petitions to Congress, stood for political office, and bombarded Southerners with anti-slavery literature. 

. Slavery was condemned as un-Christian by English Quakers and some Evangelical churches in the 18th century, and Enlightenment thinkers condemned it on humanistic grounds. Slaves were mainly Africans or African descendants at the time, but thousands of Native Americans were also enslaved.

Yes. The Civil War was a catastrophic and avoidable blunder Believed that slavery was inefficient and would have died out if left alone; instead, it was weak politicians and decaying institutions that caused needless bloodshed. Three-quarters of a million lives might have been saved, and the bloodiest war in the history averted. For a century, many of America's political leaders did all they could to keep a blind eye on slavery's carnage in order to prevent sectarian strife.