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2. Nashville Convention - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. Compromise of 1850 - Wikipedia

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   Compromise of 1850 from the Library of Congress; Compromise of 1850 from the National Archives; Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 as enacted (9 Stat. 462) in the US Statutes at Large; An Act to suppress the Slave Trade in DC as enacted (9 Stat. 467) in the US Statutes at Large; California Admission Act as enacted (9 Stat. 452) in the US Statutes at Large

4. 1850 New York City mayoral election - Wikipedia

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   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]

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   Compromise of 1850, (Page 1of 6) This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration , cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 306270 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work.

6. Timeline of the history of the United States (1820–1859)

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   September 9–20, 1850 – The Compromise of 1850, including the notorious Fugitive Slave Act passed; September 9, 1850 – California becomes a state; November 1850 – Nashville Convention reconvenes; Satisfied with the Compromise, it declares the Union intact-for the moment.

7. 1850 in the United States - Wikipedia

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   March 7 – United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech, in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850, in order to prevent a possible civil war. March 16 – Nathaniel Hawthorne's historical novel The Scarlet Letter is published in Boston, Massachusetts. March 19 – American Express is founded by Henry Wells and ...

8. Animated Frederick Douglass calls slavery a 'compromise' in ...

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   Slavery was a compromise. The Black Lives Matter movement led to more crime. Masculinity helped win World War II. Those are some of the lessons included in PragerU Kids videos, an educational ...

9. 1850s - Wikipedia

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   The 1850s (pronounced "eighteen-fifties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1850, and ended on December 31, 1859.. It was a very turbulent decade, as wars such as the Crimean War, shifted and shook European politics, as well as the expansion of colonization towards the Far East, which also sparked conflicts like the Second Opium War.