Question

Explain the compromises which made, kept and then ultimately tore apart the Union or United States

Answer 1

There were many of them, one such was the 3/5 compromise related to slaves which declared that slaves were only 3/5 men, and it tore the United States because there were those who opposed this and stated that they are 100% men. Another is the Missouri compromise on how new slave states should be admitted and how non slave states should be admitted. Another was the Tariff Compromise because it dealt with differences in approaches to economy between the north and the south. The great compromise was a problem because it was about the house of representatives being decided by the number of people in the state, which meant that the slave states had a lot more people in the house of representatives since they were bigger. There were more of them but these were the key ones.