Yes the legislative compromises are the attempt by the federal governments to solve the moral issues. But unfortunately they end up failing very miserably in the long run and they are also criticized eventually to contradict each other. As we saw in the Missouri Compromise and Kansas-Nebraska Act, when the two compromises ending up contradicting each other by allowing slavery in the new territory of Kansas. The Missouri Compromise stated that 30 years before, slavery had been prohibited in the territories north to the southern border of Missouri.
One of the good thing about the legislative compromise is that though the issue is prominent enough in the society, the government is still willing to spend time working out for a solution that they think will fix the problem.
Immigrants showed resistance to the Americanization movement by developing Catholic schools in cities. At the time, Catholicism was not widely accepted in the United States and the main Anglo religion was Protestant.
