Compromises in US history

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Great Compromise 1787

At Constitutional Convention; set up bicameral legislature; House of Rep and Senate

Three-Fifths Compromise

Counted 3/5 of slave population

Missouri Compromise

Missouri and Maine became states (Missouri became slave state maine became free state) to preserve balance of power in senate

Compromise Tariff of 1833

Tariff reduced to 25% by Henry Clay

Oregon Compromise 1846

Oregon border set (increased tensions with Britain)

Compromise of 1850

CA admitted to union as a free state, NM and TX settled: Land granted to NM and money to TX: Slave trade in Washing DC abolished: Strict fugitive slave laws: Popular Sovereignty in NM, UT

Grittenden Compromise

Slavery prohibited above 36 degree 30 line

Compromise of 1877

Broke election of 1876: established Electoral Commissions, Federal troops withdrawn from SC and LA: Democrats to recieve report for railroad