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The northern, more industrial states saw the regulation of trade by the federal government as essential to the smooth working of a national economy.
The southern states feared regulation of trade would not only threaten the sale of slaves, but also the essential export of their agricultural products (chiefly cotton and tobacco).
The Missouri Compromise was used to please both pro and anti-slavery people from the North and South with a regulation that prohibited slavery in some states and allowed it in other.
The compromises that the northern and southern states reached were the great compromise and the Three-Fifthy compromise
The compromises that the Northern and Southern states reached were the Great Compromise and the Three-Fifths Compromise.~A.K. =)
The government drew imaginary lines, north of which slavery would be illegal, such as the Mason-Dixon line. There were formal compromises, such as the Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850.
Copperheads were Northerners who did not want to go to Civil War. Rather, they wanted peace and to try and find a compromise with the South.