The missouri compromise of 1820 and the compromise of 1850 were attempts by the federal government to

This is to reduce the conflict over slavery. Missouri sought to become state and the government wanted to choose if it would be a free or slave state; the government anxious about the same picture in the Senate. The compromise of 1850 was made to please Southerners, Clay suggested that law that would help them arrest fugitive slaves; finally clay suggested that popular sovereignty would control the issue of slavery in the Utah and New Mexico lands.

the mothers played a major role in confronting the government and ending the war.