In the 1800s, farmers have some complaints with regards to the farming business. One of these complaints came out to be the biggest one or the major one that happened in the late 1800s. It was their complaint on extremely high tariff on manufactured goods.
The White Man's Burden is a poem by Rudyard Kipling. Although the poem has deeper meanings, a direct reading was popularized from the dominant points of view at the time, justifying as a noble enterprise, an ungrateful and altruistic obligatio, the domain of " white man" on those defined as "inferior races".
Apparently, in a superficial reading, the subject is a rhetorical mandate to the white man to colonize the other races for the benefit of them, being their "burden" both the task and the people themselves to colonize. Because of this issue, as well as the resounding title, it soon became an emblem of colonial rule and white supremacists.
The Great Compromise of 1787 was a meeting about issues in the government and how they were going to be set up properly. This resolved the issue of representation in government and ended up agreeing on proportional government for the upper and lower house.