Sample Sentences forCompromise of 1850 (auto-selected)
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The Compromise of 1850 left both pro-slavery and anti-slavery advocates unhappy, but it did help to postpone the Civil War.Compromise of 1850 = a compromise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery advocates that helped to postpone the Civil War
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The Fugitive Slave Law was one of the concessions made to the South as part of the Compromise of 1850.† (source)
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The Clay Compromise of 1850, which sought to conciliate the differences between North and South as to the ultimate fate of these lands, thus assumed far-reaching importance.† (source)
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For the Compromise of 1850 added to Henry Clay's garlands as the great Pacificator; but Daniel Webster's support, which insured its success, resulted in his political crucifixion, and, for half a century or more, his historical condemnation.† (source)
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It repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and reopened the slavery extension issue thought settled in the Compromise of 1850, by permitting the residents of that vast94 territory from Iowa to the Rockies to decide the slavery question for themselves, on the assumption that the northern part of the territory would be free and the southern part slave.† (source)
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Nor was he willing to discard the Compromise of 1850, which he had supported despite the enmity of Texas fire-eaters who called his vote "the damnedest outrage yet committed upon Texas."† (source)
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Finally, Houston had been the first prominent Senator to attack Calhoun's opposition to the Clay Compromise of 1850, quoting the Scripture to label those threatening secession as mere "raging waves of sea, foaming out their own shame......"† (source)
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Indeed, it is clear that Webster, Benton and Houston could not all have been right on the Compromise of 1850, for each of them, in pursuit of the same objective of preserving the Union, held wholly different views on that one omnibus measure.† (source)
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