The Constitutional Convention of 1787 enacted compromises to placate the Southern states on the slavery question. The two most important issues related to slavery were the Slave Trade and the 3/5's Compromise. Rather than restricting the slave trade, the convention agreed to make no law suppressing or regulating the Atlantic Slave Trade, which allowed it to continue for twenty additional year until 1807. The second compromise pertained to representation in the House of Representatives. The 3/5's Compromise allowed the enslaved to be counted as 3/5's to balance representation in the House of Representatives between slaveholding and non-slaveholding states.
Why did some Southern leaders want to develop industry in the South? They thought that the South depended too much on the North for manufactured goods. Since the railroad system in the South had fewer railroads, the Southern cities grew more slowly than the Northern cities.
Answer: hmm i think they said the "the pen there strongest weapon and book" because knowledge is there strongest weapon? sorry if i'm wrong i don't know .-.
They denied him his freedom because while he lived in a free state he was still considered property, and it also declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional because of the difference between slave and free states
Stalin signed a nonaggression pact with Germany because he knew that Europe was on the brink of another major war, and he wanted time to be able to build up the Soviet military.
