How did the number of free states and slave states affect representation in Congress?
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Because the slaves were not counted as citizens in the slave states. They wound up passing a bill that stated that the slaves would count as 1/3 a regular person so it would more  equal.
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slaves:\nDelaware, Georgia, Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia, north Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana Mississippi, Alabama\n\nfree:\nNew Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts,\nNew Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Ohio, \nIndiana, Illinois
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I think that is where the US was split in two, half allowing slavery and half not allowing slavery. Kansas was then debated whether it would be a slave state or not because it was in the north, and there was fighting between abolitionists and pro-slavery people, leading to bleeding kansas where alot of people died. Sorry its been a while since i read up on that junk so i have no real details.
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Slavery had little to do with the Civil War. The prime issue was balance of power between Federal and State. Slavery happened to be the issue that fell along this divide. Could also throw in north-south economic disparacy.
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538 - 435 from the house of representatives, 100 from the senate, and 3 from Washington DC.  The constitution states that the capital is to have as many representatives as if it were a state "but in no event more than the smallest state" or something to that effect.  The smallest state has 3 representatives - 2 in the Senate (house of equal representation) and 1 in the House of Representatives (house of proportional representation).  The senators and house members are not the same people who make up the electoral college, though.  The only thing that's the same is the number of representatives for each state.\n270 is the minimum necessary to win (50 % + 1).
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Helping you out with your homework huh?  Well I will not make it 4 or five sentences long but will give you something to think about.  \nThe impact it has on the American history is it started the rebellion against taxation and the mother country.  The second thing is that Americans decided to govern themselves and form a new government.  It also lead to no one ruler will govern America, judicial system, legislative branch and the executive branch.  It lead to a revolt and to the rights of our civil liberties.
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The text of this important and historic amendment to the U.S. Constitution has already been identified in previous posts, however the reasoning and legislative history has not.\n\nIt was ratified on February 3, 1870.\n\nThis amendment prohibits the states or the federal government from using a citizen's race, color, or previous status as a slave as a voting qualification. Its basic purpose was to enfranchise former slaves. But it was not really until the Voting Rights Act in 1965, almost a century later, that this purpose was actually achieved in all states.\n\nAfter the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, southern blacks voted in numbers that on a per capita basis would probably exceed black political participation today. On both a per capita and absolute basis, more blacks were elected to political office during the period from 1865 to 1880 than at any other time in American history. Although no state elected a black governor during Reconstruction, a number of state legislatures were effectively under the control of a substantial African American caucus. These legislatures brought in programs that are considered part of government's duty now, but at the time were radical, such as universal public education. They also set aside all racially biased laws, even those prohibiting interracial marriage.
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There are 435 total members of the House of Representatives.  They vary from State to State based on State population resulting in as low as 1 for a State to 53 for a State.  At the source link each State is listed with the numbers of Representatives assigned to each State.
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It varies on the population of a state.  The higher a state's population, the more members in the House of Representatives.  There are 438 members of the House, including 3 from the District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.).
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There are entire books on this subject, so I'm not going to get too detailed.\n\nThe practice of slavery was an issue left up to individual states.  The states in the Southern region chose slavery because their economies were largely agrarian.  They produced raw goods like cotton.  The states in the Northern region were primarily industrial.  They produced finished goods, which meant they had less of a need for slave labor.\n\nWhen the country started spreading to the West, the Southern states assumed the new territories would be able to vote individually on the slavery issue.  The federal government, which tended to sympathize with the more developed Northern states, decided that it should be the one to assign 'slave' or 'non-slave' status as each new state was recognized.  The idea that individual states would no longer have the power to determine their own policies was objectionable to Southern representatives in Congress.  They voted to secede from the Union in order to preserve the rights of individual states.  The federal government desperately wanted to keep the supply states and the manufacturing states together for economic strength.\n\nIt's easy to portray the Southern cause as immoral, but in reality the number of large plantations with large slave populations was minimal.  The majority of Southerners were no more racist than Northerners.  The federal government eventually prevailed through superior firepower, not superior morality.
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During the Midterm Elections (Even-numbered years that aren't Presidential elections), 33 Senators are up for election, all 435 House seats are up for election, and most State level positions (Governor, State legislature, etc.)\n\nIn addition, many ballot initiatives are put to a vote.  Everything from defining marriage between a man and a woman, raising the minimum wage, local school levys, etc. etc.\n\nThe most important national change is that the most of Congress is elected and roughly 60% of the Governors are elected.  Good luck learning more about the electoral process, it's very interesting and can be a lot of fun to keep track of.  At the very least, it can help you be an educated voter when that fateful Tuesday in November comes.
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The Compromise of 1850 generated positive and negative results. Its passage quieted sectional animosities for a few years (until the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854) and held off the Civil War for about 10 years. On the other hand, Northerners were so enraged by the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Act that it was impossible to strike future compromises.\n1California was admitted to the Union as a free state. \n2The New Mexico and Utah territories were to decide the question issue by relying on “popular sovereignty,” allowing the actual settlers to vote on the issue. \n3Texas lost the New Mexico territory, but received $10 million from the federal government for its loss. \n4The slave trade in the District of Columbia was abolished. \n5A new Fugitive Slave Act was passed.
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aside from thier creation. The senate has 2 representives from each state. the house has a diffrent number of representives, depending on population of the states represented.
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Congress consists of the house and the senate.  Each state, regardless of their population elects 2 senators.  Representatives are based on the population of the state, so New York for example has many more representatives than Maine.
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Each of the 50 states can send 2 Senators to congress.  This allows each state equal say in the political process\n\nEach state sends a number of Representatives to the House, the other half of Congress, to represent them.  The thing is, Representatives in the House correlate with the population of each state, so a more populous state has more Representatives than a less populous state.\n\nIt all arose from debate about whether the states should have equal say in the political process or whether it should depend on population.  Our congress is a compromise, the Senate was developed so each state has an equal say, the House for those who thought population should determine how much say each state has, dependent upon population.\n\nNeither has ministries, they simply retain the legislative power, with set rules governing how each half of Congress interacts with each other in making laws.  Each half retains specific powers, and often they share powers as well.  Congress, the House and Senate combined, is simply one of 3 branches of government.  \n\nIf you have any more questions my email is open, so simply ask, and I'll be happy to let you know!
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There are two houses of congress, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. \n\nThe Senate has two representatives (Senators) from each state.\n\nThe House of Representatives has representatives based on the population in each state.\n\nA Congressman may be either a Senator or a Representative. Generally, the distinction is Congressman and Senator, but not always.\n\nSenators, by virtue of the fact that there only 100, have more power. I don't know exactly how many Representatives there are - you could probably find that datum fairly quickly, and I am too lazy to do it for you. I think a conservative estimate is that there are more that 3 representatives for every Senator.
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US states have members of the House of Representatives.  US territories and other areas such as protectorate (Puerto Rico) has representatives that are non-voting members.  There purpose is to provide a communication from their terroritories to the House.