Base on the question and in my further research, I would say that the answer would be that b<span>oth sides wanted to gain something. Due to the Compromise. The slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia. The Territory of New Mexico and the Territory of Utah were organized under the rule of popular sovereignty. And the Fugitive Slave Act was passed.</span>
The Cuban Missile Crisis has become one of the critical points in the history of the Cold War. With Soviet nuclear warheads already positioned to strike the America, the world feared that it could be the brink of a third world war. Both superpowers thought house close could be thus, communications between Washington and Moscow were increased.
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Ben Franklin made a political cartoon saying "Join or Die" trying to get the 13 colonies to unite together because they were so divided
