This compromise kept slavery in the United States intact. The founders also decided not to do anything about the issue of slavery for twenty years. Someone else would have to deal with it. In 1820 with the admission of Missouri to the Union, the issue of slavery came up again. There was already a great deal of tension between the North and the South. The South was highly agricultural. It wanted to keep slavery as a way of life on their plantations.
Consciousness is the state or quality of awareness, or, of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. It has been defined as: sentience, awareness, subjectivity, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind.
not used before a noun, [more conscious; most conscious] : aware of something (such as a fact or feeling) : knowing that something exists or is happening â usually + of or that. She was very conscious of how late it was. We are conscious of the risks involved in the procedure. He is conscious of being a role model for children. I was conscious of the fact that I had to do well on the test to pass the course. He was conscious that they were watching him closely. [+] more examples [-] hide examples [+] Example sentences [-] Hide examples.