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Compromise of 1850

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Fergus Bordewich talks about the Compromise of 1850 and its significance to the North winning the Civil War more than a decade later. Fergus ...
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The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act

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Mitch McConnell Deploys Absurd Compromise of 1850 Analogy To Muddy The Immigration Reform Waters

National Review’s Robert Costa has a fresh Mitch McConnell profile out that involves some interesting episodes where Costa just uncritically reprints McConnell saying bizarre things. Here he is on ...
Publishers Weekly

On the Brink of Civil War: The Compromise of 1850 and How It Changed the Course of American History

A byzantine legislative package arising out of the squabble between North and South over the spoils of the Mexican War, the Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a free state, referred the ...
The Atlantic

History of the United States From the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaign of 1896/the McKinley and Roosevelt Administrations, 1897-1909

‘MY design,’ wrote Mr. Rhodes in beginning his history some thirty-five years ago, ‘is to write the history of the United States from the introduction of the compromise measures of 1850 down to the ...
NPR

'America's Great Debate' Saved Union From War

The Civil War remains the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history and the defining crisis of the nation. But it might easily have started 12 years earlier. In 1850, California's application to join the ...