there is a need to make important decisons as a family because if you dont there could be a fight, or anything. In my family was have a family meeteing and then we make decions. we make sure we all agt=ree on something befor doing it.
As the people in the north disliked slavery but the people in the south liked it at that time instead of abolishing it they had a compromise as if there wasnt a compromise then there would have been protests
