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The two compromises established a delicate balance between the North and the South.
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The Great Compromise of 1787, also known as the Connecticut Compromise, was a political agreement during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that defined the structure of the legislature of the United States. Under the Compromise, the legislature would be divided in two chambers: the Senate, as the upper house, where every state would have equal representation, and the Congress, the lower house, where seats would be allocated to states proportionally, according to their population. The Three-Fifths Compromise, on the other hand, was the other great compromise agreed during the Constitutional Convention. According to this compromise, three out of every five slaves would be counted as part of the population of each slave state when allocating seats for the Congress.
<u>The political significance of these two compromises was that they established a delicate balance between the North and the South.</u> For the northern states, which were generally smaller than the southern ones, the Great Compromise meant that they would be considered as equals. For the southern states, the Three-Fifths Compromise meant that they were overrepresented. If slaves had not been counted, they'd have been a minority in Congress. However, this balance was very fragile, and the disagreements between the North and South erupted into the Civil War of 1861-65,
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The Central Asia effort is what eventually brought Buddhism to China, while the Sri Lankan mission helped spread the religion to the coastal lands of Southeast Asia.
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John F. Kennedy had this type of relationship with:
- Richard Nixon. Senator JFK (Democrat) and vice president Nixon were rival candidates for the presidency in 1960. JFK won. Nixon would run again in 1968 and win.
- Martin Luther King Jr. JFK was a supporter of civil rights and in this regard, he had a coincidence with MLK´s philosophy and goals. Dr. King supported Kennedy in his 1960 campaign. JFK´s brother Robert made calls to release Dr. King after his arrest during protests.
- Senator Joe McCarthy - Joseph Kennedy, president JFK´s father, was a friend of the famous senator Joseph McCarthy (both were of Irish famlies and shared similar anti-communist views). JFK and his brother Bob were also friends with McCarthy
- Fidel Castro. In 1961, with Kennedy´s approval, the CIA sent an invasion force made of Cuban exiles to get Castro out of power. It failed. The Cuban revolutionary leader gave revolution a radical turn, became an ally of the Soviet Union and an open US enemy. He allowed the USSR to install nuclear missiles in Cuba, but Kennedy got the missiles withdrawn from the island in 1962 following the October 1962 crisis.
- Nikita Khrushchev was the Soviet top leader that was involved in the October Missile Crisis in 1962 in Cuba. He faced the US warning, threat and naval blockade, but in the end he decided to de-escalate and withdrew the nuclear missiles from Cuba.
- Ngo Dinh Diem. He was a South Vietnamese president and had the support of the United States. He was Washington´s man in Vietnam for some years, until he was killed in a military coup that led to another government.
