political decisions. For every opinion‚ there was a rebuttle‚ and for every inquiry‚ there was a retort. In order for progress to be made‚ there had to be compromise involved in every proposition. The primary compromises made during the convention were‚ the Three-Fifths Compromise‚ the Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise‚ and the Great Compromise. Boasting about twenty percent of the U.S. citizen population in 1787‚ slaves were a noticeable presence‚ and a critical subject of discussion for the
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Comp. of 1850: The significance of this compromise was that it‚ like a number of other actions‚ was an attempt to refuse the tensions that were leading to the Civil War. It is also significant to write that the Compromise failed to do this to any great extent. The Compromise of 1850 was meant to be like the Missouri Compromise. It was meant to calm sectional tensions. However‚ it was not able to do this. It failed to calm the tensions largely because of the inclusion of the Fugitive Slave Act
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The North and South in Antebellum United States In the time just before the Civil War‚ the United States was one of the most successful nations in the world. The United States had become the world’s leading cotton producing country and had developed industry‚ which would in the future‚ surpass that of Great Britain. Also‚ the United States possessed an advanced railroad and transportation system. However‚ despite its successes‚ the United States was becoming increasingly divided. The North
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AP US History Even though compromises and agreements look straight forward‚ the parties involved usually have ulterior motives. The Compromise of 1877 was consisted of a few main point. It called for the withdrawal of all federal troops from the South‚ supported internal improvements in the South and promised to appoint at least one Southerner to the cabinet. Also it gave conservative Southern Democrats some control over their local patronage and gave the South a free hand in race relations
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One compromise of the constitution was The Great Compromise‚ or the Connecticut Compromise. The Great Compromise was put into place because the states could not agree upon how they should each be represented in national government. The smaller states did not want representation based on population because they would then have less representatives in government. The larger states believed that because their population was greater they should have more representation for their people. The smaller states
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The Compromise of 1850 & Fredrick Douglas The Compromise of 1850 was primarily about the future of slavery in the new territories and the Union. Out of the Compromise of 1850 came “The Fugitive Slave Law”‚ which gave owners of escaped slaves the power and the resources to procure their escaped slaves. It constituted one of its provisions was controversial federal laws that intended to pacify the slaveholding south and enraged the Northern abolitionist and ultimately provoked the Civil War. The
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Antebellum America (Educational Reform) During the Antebellum period‚ education was not a primary focus. Education was not all that important because everything seemed to be set in stone. The children of the wealthy would get the best possible education in private schools and academies‚ and would learn about business. This would prepare them for their inherited future. The children of the poor on the other hand would go to public schools which taught trade and industrial skills‚ which would prepare
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Wilmot Proviso/Compromise of 1850 The Wilmot Proviso came about when President Polk asked Congress for $2 million dollars‚ during the Mexican War‚ in an attempt to buy peace with Mexico. This Proviso named after its sponsor David Wilmot‚ an antislavery Democrat from Pennsylvania‚ was an attempt by opponents of slavery to prevent slaves to be introduction into the newly purchased territories from Mexico after the war. The proviso passed the House but not the Senate due to the Southern take on
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Missouri Compromise The first ships with African Slaves arrived in America in the 1600s and the slave trade spread through the colonies and continued through the birth of the United States. With the expansion of cotton and other goods of agriculture through the South‚ more slaves were needed to continue production. But after the American Revolution‚ many American goods‚ including indigo and tobacco‚ lost their appeal because the British were less keen to only trading with the US. Many slaves that
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The Great Compromise of 1787 or the Connecticut Compromise of 1787 refers to the settlement of the dispute that rose due to conflicting views put forward by the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey plan. These plans proposed changes in the Articles of Confederation that was the aim of the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. However‚ whereas the Virginia Plan seemed to provide a greater representation of the more populous states in the national government‚ the New Jersey Plan was proposed by the smaller
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