Compromises US History AP

Members in The House of Representatives or the lower house will be appointed among the states according to population and they will be elected by the people. In the upper house or the Senate, all states will have an equal number of representatives, which will be chosen by the state legislatures.

Each state is allocated a number of electors equal to the number of its US senators (always two) plus the number of its US representatives (which may change each decade according to the size of each state's population as determined in the Census). Whichever party slate wins the most popular votes in the state becomes that state's electors—so that, in effect, whichever presidential ticket gets the most popular votes in a state wins all the electors of that state. Read more:

Said that every slave would count as 3/5 of a person

Both states were admitted, a free Maine and a slave Missouri, and the balance of power in Congress was maintained as before, and stipulated that all the Louisiana Purchase territory north of the southern boundary of Missouri, except Missouri, would be free, and the territory below that line would be slave.

delivered by Henry Clay in order to decrease gradually the tariff imposed on the manufactured goods coming from the north. This was the resolution to the Nullification Crisis.

present day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in 1848, excluding the areas east of the Rio Grande, which had been claimed by the Republic of Texas, though the Texas Annexation resolution two years earlier had not specified Texas's southern and western boundary.

the last-ditch effort to resolve the secession crisis of 1860-61 by political negotiation. Authored by Kentucky Senator John Crittenden, it was an attempt to resolve the crisis by addressing the concerns that led the states of the Lower South to contemplate secession.

the Republicans would agree to the following: to withdraw federal soldiers from their remaining positions in the South, to enact federal legislation that would spur industrialization in the South, to appoint Democrats to patronage positions in the South, to appoint a Democrat to the president's cabinet.