The instrument that helped sailors determine latitude while at sea would be astrolabe.
The developments made in the Compromise of 1850 was the Fugitive-Slave law and the ban on the slave trade in the nation's capital. The Fugitive-Slave law was declared for runaway and captured slaves to be returned to their respective owners.
<span>Assuming that this is referring to the same list of options that was posted before with this question, <span>the correct two responses would be that massive amounts of resources were taken away from other economic sectors, and that the government failed to properly "guess" the proper production quotas. </span></span>