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California desires to become a free state. Henry Clay proposes the Compromise of 1850 between North and South including a stronger fugitive slave law.

Henry Clay's resolutions sparked hot debate on the role of Congress in permitting or limiting slavery in the newly acquired territories from Mexico.

While the Compromise of 1850 aimed to settle sectional differences, it ultimately made them worse and paved the way toward civil war.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was intended to be a compromise but instead outraged the North, gave America the Republican Party, "Bleeding Kansas," and led to civil war.

Born in a log cabin, Millard Fillmore demonstrated that through methodical industry and competence an uninspiring man could rise to greatness.

Timesonline recently ranked the presidents. Among the worst were Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan, all of whom served in the 1850's. Why so much futility in one decade?

Franklin Pierce became President at a time of apparent calm. Thanks to the Compromise of 1850, the United States seemed to have weathered a possible crisis.

This book by Roy Morris, Jr. is a unique take on the political career of Lincoln, which was greatly influenced by Douglas.

New President Andrew Johnson was thrust into power and forced to find a way to unite a sharply divided country. The result, however, was his political downfall.

The national election of 1852 demonstrated the inability of the chief political parties in confronting the growing crisis dividing the country and leading to secession.

Andrew Johnson, who took over the Presidency after Lincoln's assassination, was born in poverty, but worked his way up quickly up the political ladder.

Historian Lewis E. Lehrman reveals the speech that defined Lincoln's convictions about slavery in his opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act sponsored by Stephen Douglas.

Years before the outbreak of the Civil War, Northerners and Southerners were sharply divided over whether the territories taken from Mexico should be opened to slavery.

After his one term in Congress ended in 1848, Abraham Lincoln became bored with politics. Several years later, controversial legislation would reignite his passion.

James Monroe was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia in 1758.

Helen Keller has ousted Confederate officer Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall collection, but the building abounds in Confederate heroes.

The Mexican War ends. The issue of Free Soil or Slave State in new territories arises. California Gold and The Wilmot Proviso.

Creating historical simulations stimulates a high degree of classroom interaction while teaching students research and debate techniques on key historical concepts.

The outburst of Joe Wilson was off-color to some Democrats in Congress. However, Representative Wilson's comment pales in comparison to two historical senators outbursts

The primary role of the US Senate is to slow the process of legislation through inquiry, hearings, and debate while at the same time providing advice and consent.

Landmark Supreme Court cases form the core of a new and innovative way to study American History within the background of affected events and people.

Abraham Lincoln began his political career as a Whig. In 1854, a new party was formed, and Lincoln became its first successful candidate in 1860.

Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy all entered the American Presidency at moments of great fear, yet each man led the nation to greater triumph.

The Wilmot Proviso represented a key step toward the debate over Congressional prerogatives regarding the extension of slavery into lands acquired from Mexico in 1848.

The life and talents of Harriet Beecher Stowe found their culmination in Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book of lasting importance.

Good paper topics are meaningless if the paper is not well written and properly documented; following a concise proofreading plan will eliminate careless errors.

From supporting the 1850 Compromise to sending Matthew Perry to Japan, Millard Fillmore used his three years as President well as a steward for the people.

The Wilmot Proviso attempted to ban slavery in newly acquired western territories but helped drive the wedge deeper between North and South.

The 1848 national election may have laid the groundwork for a decade of growing division between the North and the South through the issue of the extension of slavery.

Many factors enabled a fledgling Republican Party to capture the White House in 1860 but a chief reason may have been the division of the Democrats into three parties.

The Underground Railroad existed as far back as the 1770s, and by the 1830s a bigger network of abolitionists including Harriet Tubman helped slaves escape to Canada.

Hundreds of books have been written on the Civil War, but do Americans really understand why the South lost the war?