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	Compromise of 1850 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Compromise of 1850 (also called the Pearce Act) was a series of Congressional legislative actions to regulate the spread of slavery in the territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–48).
		The political peace achieved by the Compromise of 1850 lasted only four years, until it was shattered by the divisive Kansas-Nebraska Act.
		The main force for the Compromise of 1850 was the dispute over the western boundary of Texas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Compromise_of_1850 (1618 words)

	Compromise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Extremism is often considered as antonym to compromise, which, depending on context, may be associated with concepts of balance, tolerance.
		In the negative connotation, compromise may be referred to as capitulation, referring to a "surrender" of objectives, principles, or materiale, in the process of negotiating an agreement.
		Research has indicated that suboptimal compromises are often the result of fallacies such as the fixed sum error and the incompatibility error, leading to the misperception that the other side's interests are directly opposed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Compromise (380 words)

	Compromise of 1850 - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Compromise of 1850 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Compromise was triggered by the request of California to be admitted to the Union as a state without slavery.
		Although the Compromise failed to permanently resolve the conflict, it temporarily revitalized the Union, postponing the US Civil War for ten years.
		The Compromise of 1850 was put forward by US senator Henry Clay, and debated in the Senate for nine months.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Compromise%20of%201850 (182 words)

	Compromise of 1850 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Compromise of 1850 in the history of the United States was a series of measures whose was the settlement of five questions in between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in United States.
		The influence of the administration was thrown in favour of the compromise.
		Compromise Measures are sometimes spoken of collectively the Omnibus Bill owing to their having grouped originally—when first reported (May 8) to the Senate—into one bill.
	www.freeglossary.com /Compromise_of_1850 (865 words)

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		The Compromise of 1850, in the history of the United States, was a series of measures whose object was the settlement of five questions in dispute between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States.
		On January 29, 1850 Henry Clay presented the famous resolution which constituted the basis of the ultimate compromise.
		The sequel was the repeal of the Missouri Compromise in the Kansas-Nebraska Bill of 1854.
	wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/c/co/compromise_of_1850.html (794 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Compromise of 1850 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 â€“ March 8, 1874) was the thirteenth President of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853, and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the nations highest office.
		The Compromise of 1850 (also called The Pearce Act) was a series of Congressional legislative measures addressing slavery and the boundaries of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–48).
		The Compromise of 1850 consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Compromise-of-1850 (4226 words)

	Compromise of 1850: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)
		As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.
		The Compromise of 1850 was introduced by Senator Henry Clay in a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850.
		Contains John C. Calhoun's speech to the Senate against the Compromise of 1850, as well as Daniel Webster's notes for his speech favoring the Compromise.
	www.loc.gov /rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Compromise1850.html (464 words)

	Compromise of 1850 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Compromise of 1850, in the history of the United States, was a series of measures whose object was the settlement of fivequestions in dispute between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States.
		The influence of the administration was nowthrown in favour of the compromise.
		In the third place, the rejection of the Wilmot Proviso and the acceptance (as regards New Mexico and Utah) of "SquatterSovereignty" meant the adoption of a new principle in dealing with slavery in the territories, which, although it did not applyto the same territory, was antagonistic to the MissouriCompromise of 1820.
	www.therfcc.org /compromise-of-1850-27527.html (828 words)

	Compromise of 1850
		The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act
		On January 29, 1850, the 70-year-old Clay presented a compromise.
		The Compromise of 1850 accomplished what it set out to do -- it kept the nation united -- but the solution was only temporary.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part4/4p2951.html (716 words)

	Compromise of 1850
		One group of moderates suggested that the Missouri Compromise line be extended to the Pacific with free states north of it and slave states to the south.
		Another group proposed that the question be left to "popular sovereignty," that is, the government should permit settlers to enter the new territory with or without slaves as they pleased and, when the time came to organize the region into states, the people themselves should determine the question.
		These measures -- known in American history as the Compromise of 1850 -- were passed, and the country breathed a sigh of relief.
	cybersleuth-kids.com /americanhistory/chapter6/compromise1850.htm (484 words)

	Compromise of 1850 - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		COMPROMISE OF 1850 [Compromise of 1850] The annexation of Texas to the United States and the gain of new territory by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo at the close of the Mexican War (1848) aggravated the hostility between North and South concerning the question of the extension of slavery into the territories.
		The antislavery forces favored the proposal made in the Wilmot Proviso to exclude slavery from all the lands acquired from Mexico.
		John C. Calhoun and other Southerners, particularly Jefferson Davis, maintained that the South should be given guarantees of equal position in the territories, of the execution of fugitive slave laws, and of protection against the abolitionists.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-compromi.html (571 words)

	Getting the Message Out! Pivotal Events: The Compromise of 1850
		In addition, by early 1850 some Southerners were clamoring for a more effective federal fugitive slave law while many northern congressmen resurrected a demand that public slave sales in the District of Columbia be banished.
		Famous ever after as the Compromise of 1850, this package is usually associated with resolutions proposed by Kentucky's Whig Senator Henry Clay in late January 1850.
		Instead the Compromise's supporters consisted primarily of northern Democrats and southern Whigs, while its foes consisted almost exclusively of northern Whigs and southern Democrats, each of whom complained that the Compromise gave the other section too many concessions.
	dig.lib.niu.edu /message/ps-compromiseof1850.html (590 words)

	Compromise of 1850
		Committee of Thirteen agree on the the border of Texas as part of the Compromise of 1850.
		Proponents of the compromise were helped by the death of Calhoun at the end of March.
		Still, by the end of July it appeared as though the Compromise of 1850 was dead in the water.
	blueandgraytrail.com /event/Compromise_of_1850 (1267 words)

	Compromise of 1850
		Compromise Measures of 1850 or the Compromise of 1850, was a series of five legislative enactments, passed by the U.S. Congress during August and September 1850.
		The third bill, a substantial concession to the South, was the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850*, which provided for the return of runaway slaves to their masters; the subsequent enforcement of this law was bitterly opposed by the abolitionists, who obtained broad popular support on this issue in the North.
		The compromise measures resulted in a gradual intensification of the hostility between the slave and free states.
	www.americanrevwar.homestead.com /files/civwar/comp50.html (696 words)

	Compromise of 1850
		The Compromise of 1850 was primarily about the issue of slavery in America's new territories acquired after the Mexican War, though other, less important issues were included as well.
		The compromise was accepted by moderates throughout the country, and may have postoponed southern secession for a decade.
		Although the Compromise of 1850 was a good temporary solution, its precedent led to future violence in Kansas, and ultimately, could not prevent the onset of the Civil War eleven years later.
	www.mrnussbaum.com /history/1850.htm (197 words)

	CongressLink: [Congressional History] Lesson Plan: The Compromise of 1850
		The Compromise of 1850 was a series of five legislative enactments, passed by the U.S. Congress during August and September 1850.
		This measure superseded the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
		Explain the national significance of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and the Compromise of 1850.
	www.congresslink.org /print_lp_compromise1850.htm (650 words)

	Compromise of 1850 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The sequel was the repeal of the Missouri Compromise in the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
		Fourthly, the enforcement of the fugitive slave law aroused a feeling of bitterness in the North which helped eventually to bring on the war, and helped to make it, when it came, quite as much an anti-slavery crusade as a struggle for the preservation of the Union.
		The Compromise Measures are sometimes spoken of collectively as the Omnibus Bill, owing to their having been grouped originally—when first reported (May 8) to the Senate—into one bill.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Compromise_of_1850.html (896 words)

	1850: Great Compromise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		1850, proposed by Henry Clay, was a series of debates about slavery in the western territories, slavery in the District of Columbia, and the stricter fugitive slave laws.
		Orignially, the compromise was crafted as a package of resolutions that would either pass or be rejected.
		The Compromise of 1850 was the last major compromise in history (after a string of compromises) over slavery.
	www.scarborough.k12.me.us /high/projects/civilwar/comp1850.htm (356 words)

	Today in History: March 7
		Ironically, on March 7, 1850, (exactly 115 years before "Bloody Sunday") Danial Webster gave his famous "Seventh of March speech" in favor of the Compromise of 1850, which, while it postponed the Civil War, strengthened states' rights at the cost of African-American freedom.
		Passed after eight months of congressional wrangling, the legislation admitted California to the Union as a free state, permitted the question of slavery in Utah and New Mexico territories to be decided by popular sovereignty, settled Texas border disputes, and abolished slave trading in the District of Columbia while strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act.
		The legislative package known as the Compromise of 1850 postponed the Civil War by a decade.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/mar07.html (1932 words)

	SearchEngine.net - Daniel Webster The Compromise Of 1850
		Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850 March 7, 1850 in history...
		Compromise of 1850 (Memory): American Treasures of the Library of...
		Contains John C. Calhoun's speech to the Senate against the Compromise of 1850, as well as Daniel Webster's notes for his speech favoring the...
	www.searchengine.net /Daniel_Webster_the_Compromise_of_1850.htm (237 words)

	Our Documents - Compromise of 1850 (1850)
		The Compromise was actually a series of bills passed mainly to address issues related to slavery.
		By 1850 sectional disagreements centering on slavery were straining the bonds of union between the North and South.
		The Compromise of 1850 is composed of five statues enacted in September of 1850.
	www.ourdocuments.gov /doc.php?flash=true&doc=27 (475 words)

	SearchEngine.net - Compromise Of 1850
		Missouri Compromise, 1820-21, measures passed by the U.S. Congress to end the first of a series of crises concerning the extension of slavery.
		American Treasures of the Library of Congress: Memory (Compromise of 1850).
		1787 and the Missouri Compromise, from the region...
	www.searchengine.net /Compromise_of_1850.htm (233 words)

	The Compromise of 1850 Overhead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The admission of California as a free state with the compromise that the rest of the territory (New Mexico and Utah would be open to slavery and decided by popular sovereignty.
		On 4 July 1850, the President was subject to several hours of oratory in the broiling sun - part of the days celebration.
		The Compromise was clearly better for the North than the South.
	www.ferris.edu /htmls/academics/syllabi/mehlerbarry/geninfo/oh/comp1850oh.htm (407 words)

	People's Tribune 03-00 150th anniversary of the Compromise of 1850 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Clay's "compromise" outraged not just those people who advocated the immediate abolition of slavery throughout the United States, but also those who accepted slavery in the South but were opposed to slavery being spread elsewhere.
		By the end of September 1850, all the different pieces of the "Compromise of 1850" had been passed by the U.S. Congress -- but civil war was only postponed, not averted.
		For 10 years after the compromise which was supposed to settle the slavery question in the United States "forever," the abolitionists hammered home their message about the immorality of slavery.
	www.lrna.org /league/PT/PT.2000.03/PT.2000.03.9.html (912 words)

	Compromise of 1850 \| 1850 Compromise \| Fugitive Slave Laws \| Questia.com Online Library
		THE COMPROMISE OF 1850 569 130...and Free Territory in 1850 574 19.
		VIRGINIA AND THE COMPROMISE OF 1850 18 III.
		...the critical period of the Compromise of 1850, the stirring controversies...politics -- opposition to Compromise of 1850 -- South divided as to Compromise of 1850 -- the...
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	American Experience \| The Time of the Lincolns \| Partisan Politics
		In addition, the compromise outlawed the slave trade (not slavery) in the District of Columbia while it enacted a stricter fugitive slave law to facilitate the retrieval of slaves who had run away to the North.
		The compromise, while not wholly satisfactory to either the North or the South, temporarily preserved the Union.
		Circumventing this problem, the Kansas-Nebraska Act essentially overrode the Missouri Compromise and allowed slavery to spread into the territory only by "popular sovereignty." The result was a frenzied scramble of pro- and anti-slavery settlers into the area, and violent confrontations between the two groups.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/lincolns/politics/es_shift.html (434 words)

	Slavery in America
		Designed for middle school American history students, the lesson examines the Compromise of 1850 and the differing opinions of the politicians in power.
		Have students read the statement made by President Fillmore and others that called the Compromise of 1850 "a final settlement" of the conflict between the North and the South.
		Ask students to decide if the Compromise of 1850 could really serve as a "final settlement" and share why or why not they think so with the class.
	www.slaveryinamerica.org /history/hs_lp_compromise1850.htm (803 words)

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