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HISTORY: 11H/AP (Civil War): Compromise of 1850

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Overview

Compromise of 1850

North Gets South Gets
California admitted as a free state No slavery restrictions in Utah or New Mexico territories
Slave trade prohibited in Washington D.C. Slaveholding permitted in Washington D.C.
Texas loses boundary dispute with New Mexico     Texas gets $10 million
  Fugitive Slave Law

Database Research Links

Compromise of 1850, Jan. 29, 1850

Politico, Arlington: POLITICO LLC. Jan 29, 2015

Southerners against secession: The arguments of the constitutional unionists in 1850-51

Kent Vol. 46, Iss. 4,  (Dec 2000): 281-299.

1850--one hundred and fifty years ago: Clash of the titans

 American Heritage; New York Vol. 51, Iss. 1,  (Feb/Mar 2000): 109-11

Compromise of 1850

Encyclopædia Britannica, 7 Jun. 2021.

Henry Clay

Encyclopædia Britannica, 16 Jan. 2019.

Millard Fillmore

Encyclopædia Britannica, 17 Apr. 2020.

What Was the Compromise of 1850?

The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Aug., 1956), pp. 292-309 (18 pages)

The Authorship of the Compromise of 1850

The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Mar., 1936), pp. 525-536 (12 pages)

Newsela Collection

U.S. History - Presidential Profile: Millard Fillmore

Benedict Library Resources

Additional Web Resources

Images

Map of the United States that denotes free and slave states as well as the territory open to slavery or freedom by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, c. 1856.

Missouri Compromise . image. Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 13 Nov. 2021. school.eb.com/levels/high/assembly/view/216425. Accessed 18 Nov. 2021.

Millard Fillmore - the 13th President of the USA (1850-53), last Whig president, succeeded from the Vice Presidency on the death of Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), enacted the Fugitive Slave Act as part of the Compromise of 1850.

Millard Fillmore . Fine Art. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
quest.eb.com/search/108_264649/1/108_264649/cite. Accessed 18 Nov 2021.

Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858), Senator from Missouri who opposed the 1850 Compromise regarding slavery in the United States.

Thomas Hart Benton. Photography. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
quest.eb.com/search/309_2915641/1/309_2915641/cite. Accessed 18 Nov 2021.

Howell Cobb (1815-1868), Southern congressman who supported the Union and the Compromise of 1850 regarding slavery in the United States.

Howell Cobb. Photography. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
quest.eb.com/search/309_2915547/1/309_2915547/cite. Accessed 18 Nov 2021.