Think about the compromises that occurred in the united states before 1850. do you think the solutions set forth in those compromises were good ideas? why do you think the compromises did not hold the nation together? the economic bases of the north and the south the territorial expansion occurring in the first half of the 1800s issues at the heart of various compromises, including the missouri compromise and the compromise of 1850

• The Missouri Compromise: Missouri was admitted into the Union as a slave state, but to balance the number of slave/non-slave states, Maine was taken away from Massachusetts and mad a non-slave state. 
• Slave Trade Compromise: The Constitution didn't allow for the end of slavery for at least 20 years. 
• Connecticut Compromise: The Constitution set up two houses in Congress: the House of Representatives (proportional membership based on population) and the Senate (two seats per state). 
• The Three-Fifths Compromise: Slaves counted as 3/5 of a person under the Constitution for the purposes of apportioning House of Representative seats.