1. Southern governments passed laws limiting the rights of
free African Americans
2. Most could not vote
3. Most could not travel freely
4. Most could not hold certain jobs
5. Sometimes they had to have a white person represent them
in business transactions.
The main issues that were compromised on in the Constitutional Convention were:
- The Great Compromise, creating a bicameral Congress
- The 3/5ths Compromise, making slaves count as 3/5ths of a person
- Commerce Compromise, mandating that tariffs were only to be allowed on imports from foreign countries and not exports from the U.S., and that interstate commerce would be regulated by the federal government.
- Compromise on Trade of Enslaved People, when Northern states agreed to wait until 1808 before Congress would be able to ban the trade of enslaved people in the U.S.
- The Electoral College compromise, when the two sides debating at the convention compromised with the creation of the Electoral College, which is made up of electors roughly proportional to population.
