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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.

Tall, stately and formal, James Buchanan was the only President who never married.

Abraham Lincoln had already established himself as a powerful public speaker by 1854. In 1858, he delivered a speech that sealed this reputation and moved the nation.

Missouri proposes to enter the Union as a slave state, instigating the Missouri Compromise. Maine enters the Union as a free state.

Press censorship and attacks on newspapers began with the founding of the nation and always involved political ideals or social controversies like abolition of slavery.

It takes ability, personality, support, and luck to become President. Some who had much to offer never made it over the electoral hurdles.

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

An illogical compromise over representation was reached to enable the "slave" states to be be part of United States.

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.

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

The events that led up to the ratification of the United States Constitution were challenging for the founders. Prior to the writing of the Constitution colonial America