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Your search for: "Compromise of 1850"


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Research Topics on: "Compromise of 1850"

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Books on: "Compromise of 1850"

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Journal Articles on: "Compromise of 1850"

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Magazine Articles on: "Compromise of 1850"

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Newspaper Articles on: "Compromise of 1850"

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    Political Giant and His Compromise
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), April 30, 2010
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...narrows his focus to Clays last great struggle, the Compromise of 1850, and argues quite persuasively that good politics...the South would leave the Union altogether. The Compromise of 1850 is the key to the drama of Henry Clays life, and...
     
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    Setting Tenor of Authority in House
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), August 10, 2011
    Subjects: 
    Musicians--Political aspects, Roosevelt, Theodore--Political activity, United States. Congress. House
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...those who gave it to me. There is an echo here of Henry Clay, who was warned that his controversial vote on the compromise of 1850 would cost him the presidency, and said: I would rather be right than be president of the United States. Reed...
     
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    Buchanan Memoir Fails to Cleanse Soiled Image
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 29, 2006
    Subjects: 
    President of the United States
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...former president deplored the failure of Northern states to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law, an integral part of the Compromise of 1850. He insisted that his administration had sought to implement the law in good faith, despite "great loss and inconvenience...
     
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    A Plan to Halt Slavery in Virginia; Nat Turner's Bloody Uprising Prompted Lawmaker's Reaction
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 3, 2007
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    Legislators--Planning, Slavery
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Virginia later used these ideas in crafting the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 - an important and controversial part of the Compromise of 1850. Envoy to France Faulkner enjoyed great political success in the decade before the war. In the state Constitutional...
     
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    Lincoln's Steadfast Secretary of State
    Newspaper article by John M. Taylor; The Washington Times, October 13, 2001
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...of public funds in the operation of parochial schools. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1849, Seward opposed the Compromise of 1850, insisting that slavery be excluded from territories in which it was not already present. Seward was not a charter...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: "Compromise of 1850"

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    Compromise of 1850
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    COMPROMISE OF 1850 The annexation of Texas to the United States and the gain of new territory...the factions were fighting the Civil War . See E. C. Rozwenc, The Compromise of 1850 (1957); H. Hamilton, Prologue to Conflict (1964...
     
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    Know-Nothing Movement
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...eclipsed by the Mexican War and the debates over slavery. When the slavery issue was temporarily quieted by the Compromise of 1850 nativism again came to the fore. Many secret orders grew up, of which the Order of United Americans and the Order...
     
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    Stephens, Alexander Hamilton
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...to 1859. Stephens, together with Howell Cobb and Robert Toombs, was influential in Georgias acceptance of the Compromise of 1850, and with them he organized in the state the short-lived Constitutional Union party. He voted against secession...
     
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    United States
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...antislavery demands, while Southerners, too, became increasingly intransigent. Only with great effort was the Compromise of 1850 achieved, and it was to be the last great compromise between the sections. The new Western states, linked in outlook...
     
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    Taylor, Zachary
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...limitation of Texas boundary claims. His free-soil views put him in opposition to the measures that were to become the Compromise of 1850 . After charges of corruption were lodged against members of his cabinet, he promised a reorganization, but was...
     

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