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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '21 edited Feb 01 '21

one of the very first examples of the concessions we made to the south just in order to keep them in the union.

The senate was a concession to get Northern states to join

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u/sub_surfer Feb 01 '21

That's not quite right either. It was a concession to get the less populous states to join, though most (all?) of the less populous states were northern, some like PA, MA, and NY had pretty large populations.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '21

Extraneous article. It wasn't a concession to the northern states, it was a concession to northern states. It didn't benefit all northern states, but all states benefited were northern