Crittenden Compromise

Target entity: Crittenden Compromise
Context triple: [John J. Crittenden, notableWork, Crittenden Compromise]

• A. Sherman Compromise
  The Sherman Compromise, better known as the Great Compromise of 1787, was the Constitutional Convention agreement that created a bicameral U.S. legislature with proportional representation in the House and equal representation for states in the Senate.
• B. Compromise of 1850
  The Compromise of 1850 was a package of U.S. laws intended to ease sectional tensions over slavery and territorial expansion, notably admitting California as a free state while strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act.
• C. Missouri Compromise
  The Missouri Compromise was an 1820 U.S. federal statute that temporarily eased sectional tensions by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state while banning slavery in most of the remaining Louisiana Territory north of the 36°30′ parallel.
• D. Wilmot Proviso
  The Wilmot Proviso was a proposed 1846 U.S. legislative amendment that sought to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico, intensifying sectional tensions and shaping antebellum politics.
• E. Wade–Davis Bill
  The Wade–Davis Bill was a stringent Reconstruction-era proposal by Radical Republicans in the U.S. Congress that sought to impose harsh conditions on former Confederate states’ readmission to the Union.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Crittenden Compromise
Target entity description: The Crittenden Compromise was an unsuccessful 1860–1861 proposal to avert the American Civil War by constitutionally protecting slavery and extending the Missouri Compromise line across the western territories.

• A. Sherman Compromise
  The Sherman Compromise, better known as the Great Compromise of 1787, was the Constitutional Convention agreement that created a bicameral U.S. legislature with proportional representation in the House and equal representation for states in the Senate.
• B. Compromise of 1850
  The Compromise of 1850 was a package of U.S. laws intended to ease sectional tensions over slavery and territorial expansion, notably admitting California as a free state while strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act.
• C. Missouri Compromise
  The Missouri Compromise was an 1820 U.S. federal statute that temporarily eased sectional tensions by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state while banning slavery in most of the remaining Louisiana Territory north of the 36°30′ parallel.
• D. Wilmot Proviso
  The Wilmot Proviso was a proposed 1846 U.S. legislative amendment that sought to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico, intensifying sectional tensions and shaping antebellum politics.
• E. Wade–Davis Bill
  The Wade–Davis Bill was a stringent Reconstruction-era proposal by Radical Republicans in the U.S. Congress that sought to impose harsh conditions on former Confederate states’ readmission to the Union.
• F. None of above. chosen