The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that temporarily defused tensions between...
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compromise, which, depending on context, may be associated with concepts of balance and tolerance. Compromise of 1850 – American political compromise...
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September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern interests in slavery and Northern Free-Soilers. The Act was one of the most controversial...
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Texas divisionism (category History of Texas)
decades of Texan statehood, particularly in the decades immediately prior to and following the American Civil War. In the Compromise of 1850 debates,...
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The Missouri Compromise (also known as the Compromise of 1820) was federal legislation of the United States that balanced desires of northern states to...
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Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850. Under the compromise, Democrats controlling the House of Representatives allowed the decision of the Electoral...
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Daniel Webster (redirect from Seventh of March speech)
Fillmore appointed Webster as secretary of state, and Webster contributed to the passage of the Compromise of 1850, which settled several territorial issues...
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supported the efforts of Senators Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas, who crafted and passed the Compromise of 1850. The Compromise of 1850 temporarily settled...
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slavery. The tension was partially defused with the Compromise of 1850, in which Texas ceded some of its territory to the federal government to become non-slave-owning...
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1850 and was succeeded by Millard Fillmore. Fillmore, Clay, Daniel Webster, and Democrat Stephen A. Douglas led the passage of the Compromise of 1850...
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Kansas–Nebraska Act (redirect from Kansas-Nebraska Bill of 1854)
expressed hope that the Compromise of 1850 had settled the debate over the issue of slavery in the territories. The compromise had allowed slavery in Utah...
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of the American people and giving them a voice in the government. The debates leading to the Compromise of 1850 were the last major contribution of the...
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War of 1846 to 1848, the issue of slavery in the new territories led to the Compromise of 1850. While the compromise averted an immediate political crisis...
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John C. Calhoun (redirect from Death of John C. Calhoun)
Mexican–American War, the Wilmot Proviso and the Compromise of 1850 before he died of tuberculosis in 1850. He often served as a virtual independent who...
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Zachary Taylor (redirect from 12th President of the United States of America)
statehood, setting the stage for the Compromise of 1850. Taylor died suddenly of a stomach disease on July 9, 1850, with his administration having accomplished...
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organized in several slave states to support the Compromise of 1850. It was one of two major parties in the states of Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi in the...
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Winfield Scott (redirect from Grand Old Man of the Army)
party was already dying off. The Whigs were badly divided over the Compromise of 1850, and Franklin Pierce won a decisive victory over his former commander...
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Slave states and free states (category Political history of the United States)
the writing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787, the subject of political crises in the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 and was the...
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Greeley: Champion of American Freedom. NYU Press. p. 154. ISBN 9780814794029. McPherson, 1982, p. 65. Bruce Tap, "Compromise of 1850", in William B. Barney...
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Presidency in July 1850 after the death of more charismatic General Zachary Taylor, lacked a strong political base. The Compromise of 1850, which admitted...
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Franklin Pierce (redirect from 14th President of the United States of America)
the view of pro-slavery Southern politicians, the Compromise of 1850 had already annulled the Missouri Compromise by admitting the state of California...
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1850 and was succeeded by Millard Fillmore. Fillmore, Clay, Daniel Webster, and Democrat Stephen A. Douglas led the passage of the Compromise of 1850...
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New Mexico Territory (redirect from Territory of New Mexico)
the failed statehood proposal of early 1850, the boundary disputes with Texas had been dispelled by the Compromise of 1850. The Gadsden Purchase was acquired...
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as one of the most important bargains in American history, ranking just below the better known Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850." Politicians...
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Wikisource has original text related to this article: Crittenden Compromise The Crittenden Compromise was an unsuccessful proposal to permanently enshrine slavery...
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California Statehood Act (redirect from An Act for the Admission of the State of California into the Union)
Fillmore on September 9, 1850, which admitted California as the 31st state to the Union. Per the terms of the Compromise of 1850, California was admitted...
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incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States as a state in the Union Legal status of Texas Compromise of 1850, a package of congressional...
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Lincoln–Douglas debates (redirect from Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858)
issue of slavery was raised several times during his tenure in the Senate, particularly with respect to the Compromise of 1850. As chairman of the committee...
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Wilmot Proviso (category Legal history of the United States)
of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo also failed. Sectional political disputes over slavery in the Southwest continued through the Compromise of 1850....
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Henry Clay (redirect from The Great Compromiser)
Douglas took charge of pro-compromise forces. By the end of September 1850, Clay's proposal, which became known as the Compromise of 1850, had been enacted...
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