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The Crisis of 1850: Compromise and Conflict in Pre-Civil War America

The Antebellum period in America was marked by intense debates over slavery, particularly during the Congressional Debate of 1850. This critical juncture featured notable figures such as Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun advocating for the Compromise of 1850 amid rising tensions. Key events like the Bloodhound Bill, the death of President Zachary Taylor, and the emergence of parties like the Republicans and the Know Nothings highlighted the nation's divisions. Lincoln's passionate arguments during the Lincoln-Douglas debates underscored the struggles over slavery's expansion, leading to an inevitable clash.

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The Crisis of 1850: Compromise and Conflict in Pre-Civil War America

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  1. Antebellum Crisis

  2. Congressional Debate of 1850 • The immortal trio • Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun

  3. Compromise of 1850

  4. The Bloodhound Bill

  5. Death of Zachary Taylor

  6. America Eyes Other Land • Japanese Trade • Ostend Manifesto

  7. Kansas Nebraska

  8. Bleeding Kansas

  9. Caning of Charles Sumer

  10. Dred Scott v Sanford

  11. Creation of the Republican Party • Whigs • Free Soilers • Liberty • Know Nothing (American)

  12. Panic of 1857

  13. Harper’s Ferry

  14. Election of 1860

  15. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South.[1]

  16. Lincoln Douglas Debates • Freeport Doctrine • “I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects—certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.” - Lincoln

  17. Crittenden Compromise

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