Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850 A political compromise between the North and South of the USA. Initiated by Henry
CLAY, it became law in September 1850. In an attempt to resolve problems arising from slavery it provided for the admission of California as a free state, the organization of the Utah and New Mexico territories with no mention of slavery, the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia (Washington), and a stricter fugitive slave law. Hopes that these measures would provide an enduring solution to North-South antagonism were dashed by the passage of the
KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT (1854) and other issues, including persistent popular resistance to the return of fugitive slaves.
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Texas, New Mexico, and the Compromise of 1850: Boundary Dispute and Sectional Crisis.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...remembered component of the Compromise of 1850--the statute by which...address the Compromise of 1850 from the vantage point...of the passage of the Compromise of 1850 in the House...of the Compromise of 1850, and no student of antebellum...
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A bird's-eye view of the compromise of 1850.
Magazine article from: Cobblestone; 1/1/2002; 700+ words
; ...to their masters) 1820 Missouri Compromise (Maine enters the Union as a free...House but not by the Senate) 1849-1850 California seeks admission to the...free state, 1849; is admitted, 1850 1850 Millard Fillmore becomes president...
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Texas treasury notes after the compromise of 1850.
Magazine article from: Independent Review; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...public lands against this debt. By 1850, however, the state of Texas had...second revival in conjunction with the Compromise of 1850 to their ultimate redemption in 1856...Texas debt through the Compromise of 1850. We examine the political climate...
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Texas Treasury Notes after the Compromise of 1850
Magazine article from: The Independent Review; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...public lands against this debt. By 1850, however, the state of Texas had...second revival in conjunction with the Compromise of 1850 to their ultimate redemption in 1856...Texas debt through the Compromise of 1850. We examine the political climate...
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Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic, vol 1, Commerce and Compromise, 1820-1850.
Magazine article from: The Historian; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...until after his presidency (359). The Missouri Compromise "revealed an important truth about Jefferson: although...Reconstruction (343). Ashworth concludes with the Compromise of 1850, which others have failed to explain. American specialists...
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"The Jordan is a hard road to travel": Hoosier responses to fugitive slave cases, 1850-1860.
Magazine article from: International Social Science Review; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; On September 18, 1850, President Millard Fillmore signed what one historian labeled...the Alien and Sedition Acts," the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. (1) Part of the Compromise of 1850, this law placed federal commissioners in each county in...
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SOUTHERNERS AGAINST SECESSION: THE ARGUMENTS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL UNIONISTS IN 1850-51.
Magazine article from: Civil War History; 12/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...but it only achieved a settlement in September 1850 when the various parts of the Compromise of 1850 passed both houses of Congress. After the congressional...compromise was indeed acceptable. In the North, the 1850 congressional elections produced Democratic...
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California becomes a State of the Union.(1850)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: History Today; 9/1/2000; 700+ words
; ...Saturday, September 7th 1850, when the Bill which made...and cards. He devised a compromise which offered, he told the Senate on January 29th, 1850, `an amicable arrangement...called the Compromise of 1850 was finessed through, not...
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Buffalo's Antebellum African American Community and The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
Magazine article from: Afro - Americans in New York Life and History; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; On September 18, 1850, President Millard Fillmore signed...the most controversial element of the Compromise of 1850. This law has been characterized as...activity in Buffalo during the 1850s. By 1850 the Buffalo population had increased...
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Chances are. (whether President Zachary Taylor's was murdered in 1850 by arsenic poisoning)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 7/1/1991; ; 620 words
; ...President Zachary Taylor's death in 1850 was, as historian David Potter wrote...have vetoed proSouthern parts of the Compromise of 1850, which helped to stall the Civil...Civil War still would have come-in 1850, not 1861. That might have left...
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Compromise of 1850
Book article from: Major Acts of Congress
Compromise of 1850 James Huston S lavery presented...the United States prior to 1850, but none proved more unsolvable...and failed on July 31, 1850. Clay soon left the Senate...signals that he would sign a compromise act if one were passed by...
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The Slavery Issue: Western Politics and the Compromise of 1850
Book article from: American Eras
...Issue: Western Politics and the Compromise of 1850 Growing Influence. Although less...lands almost tore the nation apart in 1850. California Gold Rush. At first...ease the crisis over California in 1850, it was Clay. He began from the...
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Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
...x2013; 1852). The compromise called for the admission...a supporter of the compromise who stepped into office...controversial part of the Compromise of 1850. The law carried a...Platform adopted in late 1850 held that the fate of...
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1815-1850: Law and Justice: Overview
Book article from: American Eras
...national reputations between 1815 and 1850 than in the rest of American history...during the debates leading up to the Compromise of 1850 to look to the Supreme Court to resolve...flourished so impressively from 1815 to 1850. In addition to the political inheritance...
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1850-1877: Government and Politics: Overview
Book article from: American Eras
1850-1877: Government and Politics: Overview National Epic. The events of 1850-1877 form the central drama in the history...The set piece that opens the era, the Compromise of 1850, was perceived even by contemporaries...
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