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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Compromise of 1850"”.
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The Compromise of 1850: A Burkeian Analysis
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Ideological Differences Between Whigs, Republicans and Democrats in Iowa, 1838-1860: Real or Illusory?
… controversy surrounding political parties of the Jacksonian period. This thesis focuses on Iowa's political parties in the legislative process to determine whether there is ideological concensus or conflict on selected issues in the period from 1838 to 1860. Procedure. Issues of political …
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The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Oran M. Roberts
This thesis analyzes the political career of Oran M. Roberts during the critical period from 1850 to 1873. Through a reassessment of Roberts's extensive personal papers in the context of modern historical scholarship, the author explains how Roberts's political philosophy reflected the biases and …
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The Southern perception of the Trans-Mississippi West, 1845-1853
"This thesis examines the awareness and response of the slave states to the conditions and events in the Trans-Mississippi West from Texas Annexation through the Oregon Question, Mexican War, California Gold Rush, Compromise of 1850 to the Pacific Railroad and Gadsden Purchase. The people of the …
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A Peculiar Place for the Peculiar Institution: Slavery and Sovereignty in Early Territorial Utah
… belief system. Ironically, had Congress known of Utah's slave population, it may have never granted Utah the power to legislate on slavery. During the debates over the Compromise of 1850, which series of acts created Utah Territory without restriction on slavery, Utah lobbyist John M. Bernhisel …
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The Fugitive Slave Law, Antislavery and the Emergence of the Republican Party in Indiana
<p>The most contentious portion of the Compromise of 1850 between the Northern free states and the Southern slave states was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. For decades slaveholders had complained of the difficulties encountered in reclaiming their fugitive slaves and demanded stronger legislation …
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Popular sovereignty, slavery in the territories, and the South, 1785-1860
The doctrine of popular sovereignty emerged as a potential solution to the crisis over slavery in the territories because it removed the issue from the halls of Congress. Most historians have focused on its development and implementation beginning in the late 1840s and culminating with passage of …