The correct answer is B) Compromise of 1850 >Dred Scott decision.
The sequence of events that correctly identifies a rise in tensions, bringing the nation closer toward armed conflict is "Compromise of 1850 >Dred Scott decision."
The Compromise of 1850 was a series of bills that temporarily avoided a political confrontation between states that supported slavery and states that not, about the territories recently acquired after the Mexican.American War. But the Compromise did not last long because it was broken by Senator Stephen Douglass and Henry Clay.
The Dred Scott decision did not allow Dred Scott to get his liberty back. The Court decided that black people were not citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.