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The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that temporarily defused tensions between slave and free states in the years leading up to the American Civil War.
This timeline of events leading to the American Civil War is a chronologically ... that popular sovereignty, a vote of ... 31,443,321 since the 1850 ...
Popular sovereignty is the principle that the leaders of a state and its government are created ... A Historiographical Essay," Civil War History 57#1 (2011) pp. 48 ...
The Compromise of 1850, proposed by Henry Clay in January 1850, guided to passage by Douglas over Northern Whig and Southern Democrat opposition, and enacted September 1850, admitted California as a free state, including Southern California, and organized Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory with slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty.
The application of the doctrine of popular sovereignty receives particular emphasis in American history, notes historian Christian G. Fritz's American Sovereigns: The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War, a study of the early history of American constitutionalism. [4]
Etcheson, Nicole. "The Great Principle of Self-Government: Popular Sovereignty and Bleeding Kansas", Kansas History 27 (Spring-Summer 2004):14–29, links it to Jacksonian Democracy; Etcheson, Nicole. Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era (2006) Goodrich, Thomas. War to the Knife: Bleeding Kansas, 1854–1861 (2004)
The senior position of Southern Congressmen and Senators, and the discipline of many groups such as the Southern Caucus [17] meant that Civil Rights initiatives tended to be blunted despite popular support. The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a significant event in converting the Deep South to the Republican Party; in that year most ...
He used the phrase "squatter sovereignty" in a speech he gave at the convention to describe popular sovereignty. [2] During the American Civil War, Yancey was appointed by Confederate President Jefferson Davis to head a diplomatic delegation to Europe in the attempt to secure formal recognition of Southern independence. In these efforts, Yancey ...