Proslavery delegates feared that northern representatives would use their superior numbers to severely restrict or even abolish slavery, so they sought political equality by demanding that slaves be factored in when computing numbers in the House of Representatives.

Northern states didn’t push too hard on slavery issues. Their main goal was to secure a new government. They feared antagonizing the South. Most of them saw slavery as a dying institution with no economic future.

Ultimately, the delegates who strongly opposed slavery realized that pressing against it would make it impossible for the states to come together. They worked out a compromise with the Southern states. They agreed that Congress could not tax exports and that no law could be passed to ban the slave trade until 1808.

Finally, a powerful senator from Kentucky named Henry Clay (1777–1852) put together a compromise plan that both sides grudgingly accepted. Under the terms of Clay’s plan, Missouri would be admitted into the Union as a slave state.

On 16 December 2014, six gunmen affiliated with the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) conducted a terrorist attack on the Army Public School in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. On 2 December 2015, Pakistan hanged four militants involved in the Peshawar massacre.

The Battles of Sailor’s Creek on April 6, 1865 resulted in the loss of two complete Confederate Corps. Lee’s Biographer Douglas Southall Freeman called it, ‘the Black day of the Army. ‘ Read more Read less.

The raiders entered Baramula on the night of 25 October 1947. With the acceptance of the signed Instrument of Accession by the Governor General, during the night of 26th October, 1947, the State of Jammu and Kashmir became an integral part of India.

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