The Crittenden Compromise was
named after the Senator who proposed it, John J. Crittenden. The Crittenden
Compromise was an attempt to make many concessions to the South, such that the
Southern states would not have grounds for secession anymore. As such, the
Crittenden Compromise codified and would have made permanent a number of
important elements of America at the time.

For example, the Crittenden
Compromise included six different Constitutional Amendments and four proposed
resolutions to be passed by Congress. These would make slavery a permanent
institution ratified in the Constitution. Furthermore, the Crittenden
Compromise would make permanent the dividing line set out in the Missouri
Compromise, such that slavery would always be legal south of the 36^th parallel north and would be illegal north of
that line.

The Crittenden Compromise would
also have prevented Congress from interfering with slavery in any significant
fashion, whether through interstate trade or through future Amendments and
proclamation. The Crittenden Compromise would have enforced fugitive slave
laws, thus assuring southern slave owners that runaway slaves would be returned
to them instead of being set free in the northern, abolitionist states.

Ultimately, the Crittenden
Compromise failed due to a number of factors, one of the most important of
which was the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln immediately dismissed the
terms of the Crittenden Compromise which was seen as contributing to the
secession of the South and the Civil War.

A compromise agreement might in
a general sense be used to refer to the documentation which enforces a given compromise,
but in a more specific sense, it refers to a type of contract prevalent in the
United Kingdom. Compromise agreements are contracts between employers and
employees which are designed to ensure that the employee receives some amount
of restitution from the employer in exchange for the employee renouncing any
claim to further funds and any claim to an additional obligation from the
employer.

Most often compromise
agreements are instituted in situations when the employer has breached some
element of United Kingdom law or statute, such that the employee does have a
significant claim upon the employer of funds or of some other obligation.

The
compromise agreement would discharge this debt in a fashion potentially less
costly to the employer and most likely much more quickly than a full court
proceeding.

Compromise agreements may
sometimes be undesirable for the involved parties, particularly for the
employees who might have been harmed by the breach on the part of the employer,
but they will often have benefits for both sides. An employer who goes into a
compromise agreement will know that the issue will be wholly discharged with
the completion of the compromise agreement because the employee will have
signed a waiver saying that he or she has no more claim upon the issue. The
employee will also receive a clear monetary sum in exchange for this
renunciation, which he or she might not otherwise be able to obtain through
court proceedings against the employer.

The Compromise of 1850 was an
important compromise from American history which was made in order to prevent
more conflict between the Northern and Southern states of America. The Compromise
of 1850 came after the two year Mexican American War which ended in 1848, during
which tensions between the North and the South had been rising steadily. 

In
fact, without the Compromise of 1850 it is possible that the South would have
seceded from the Union in 1850 instead of seceding in 1861. Thus, the
Compromise of 1850 staved off the Civil War for some time, although ultimately
one could consider it ineffectual in that the Civil War did still come.

The Compromise of 1850 had a
number of important provisions which were in favor of either given side and
which inherently were still irksome for the opposing side. The South received
such provisions in the Compromise of 1850 as a reinforced Fugitive Slave Act,
which would ensure that slaves, when they ran away, would have to be brought
back to their owners even though they had run to abolitionist states where
slavery was illegal.

The North, on the other hand,
received such provisions as the lack of a guarantee of legal slavery south of a
particular border line such as the 35^th parallel
north. The Compromise of 1850 also dealt with the issue of whether or not
slavery would be allowed in certain newer southwestern states and it dealt with
how the territory in that area would be divided.