Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States ...
The Nashville Convention was a political meeting held in Nashville, Tennessee, on June 3–11, 1850.Delegates from nine slave states met to consider secession, if the United States Congress decided to ban slavery in the new territories being added to the country as a result of the Louisiana Purchase and the Mexican–American War.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. ... Compromise of 1850; Compromise of 1877; Connecticut Compromise;
The 1850 election was a landslide for the Whigs, who carried 15 wards, 13 out of 16 assembly races, and the governorship. Wood was dogged by a personal affair alleging he had defrauded his own relatives and received the lowest percentage for any Tammany candidate since direct elections for mayor began in 1834. [1]
March 7, 1850: Senator Daniel Webster gave his "Seventh of March" speech in which he endorsed the Compromise of 1850 to prevent a possible civil war; May 22, 1850: Senate votes 42-11 in favor of ratifying the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty after the motion to do so was put forth by William R. King of Alabama. [7]
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Compromise of 1850; F. Inauguration of Millard Fillmore;
Worth County was a Texas county which was established by the state legislature from territory previously belonging to Santa Fe County, Texas on January 3, 1850. Val Verde (later the site of the Civil War Battle of Valverde ) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] was established as the county seat.
Maine was admitted in 1820, [101] and Missouri in 1821, [102] The trend of admitting a new free or slave state to balance the status of previous ones would continue up until the Compromise of 1850. The next state to be admitted would be Arkansas (slave state) in 1836, quickly followed by Michigan (free state) in 1837.