that they were afraid of fighting between delegates. So finally they proposed that the house be based on population and the senate be based equally. This was passed by a five to four vote. This was called “the Great Compromise”. But the still had the a big argument on if the south would be allowed to count a slave as a person of the population. The north states saw it as if you don’t think of a slave as a human then why should you count them as apart of your population. The south states new that they would be at a great disadvantage if a good majority of their population were not counted as people. So the north and south argued over the different views on slavery then finally the north decided on a three-fifths of a person per salve, because they thought slavery would die out in time and it wouldn’t be a problem. The diversity between each state became a very big problem but it was partly settle in the constitution and in time as the new government was forged. I believe that the Civil was one of the greatest examples of diversity in our nation short existents. The conflict of diversity between blacks and whites, abolitionists and slave traders , and north and south. By this time blacks new nothing of what freedom was like for there ancestors, all they knew was the stories told from generation to generation through story telling and song. By 1860 over 4 million African Americans lived as laboring slaves. Even though there was revolt against the white slaveholders nothing came out of except dead slaves. The whites of the south liked their lazys way of life living off of slaves that did their work. The northern states had a problem with it, so some led underground railroads to free slaves and to get them to the north. Another big problem was popular sovereignty which allowed new territories to vote on slavery. Whites from the north and south flocked to new territories such as Kansas and Nebraska , to fight for thei...
