04099nam 2200697Ia 450 991079040110332120230322234915.00-8214-4399-2(CKB)2670000000187193(EBL)1743698(OCoLC)809317796(SSID)ssj0000606274(PQKBManifestationID)11406084(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606274(PQKBWorkID)10582026(PQKB)10466578(MdBmJHUP)muse15912(Au-PeEL)EBL1743698(CaPaEBR)ebr10539262(MiAaPQ)EBC1743698(EXLCZ)99267000000018719320110912d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCongress and the crisis of the 1850s[electronic resource] /edited by Paul Finkelman and Donald R. KennonAthens Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Pressc20121 online resource (241 p.)Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1801-1877Description based upon print version of record.0-8214-1977-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : a disastrous decade / Paul Finkelman -- Politics, patronage, and public policy : the Compromise of 1850 / Michael F. Holt -- The appeasement of 1850 / Paul Finkleman -- Beyond the balance rule : Congress, statehood, and slavery, 1850-1859 / Matthew Glassman -- Manifest destiny's hangover : Congress confronts territorial expansion and martial masculinity in the 1850's / Amy S. Greenberg -- "When the victims of oppression stand up manfully for themselves" : the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and the role of African Americans in obstructing its enforcement / Spencer R. Crew -- "Agitation is as necessary as tranquility is dangerous" : Kinsley S. Bingham becomes a Republican / Martin J. Hershock -- Dred, panic, war : how a slave case triggered financial crisis and civil disunion / Jenny Wahl -- "Hit him again" : the caning of Charles Sumner / Brooks D. Simpson.During the long decade from 1848 to 1861 America was like a train speeding down the track, without an engineer or brakes. The new territories acquired from Mexico had vastly increased the size of the nation, but debate over their status-and more importantly the status of slavery within them-paralyzed the nation. Southerners gained access to the territories and a draconian fugitive slave law in the Compromise of 1850, but this only exacerbated sectional tensions. Virtually all northerners, even those who supported the law because they believed that it would preserve the union, despised beingPerspectives on the history of Congress, 1801-1877.SlaveryUnited StatesExtension to the territoriesSlaveryPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centurySlaveryUnited StatesLegal status of enslaved persons in free statesFugitive slavesLegal status, laws, etcUnited StatesSlaveryLaw and legislationUnited StatesHistory19th centurySectionalism (United States)History19th centuryUnited StatesPolitics and government1815-1861SlaveryExtension to the territories.SlaveryPolitical aspectsHistorySlaveryLegal status of enslaved persons in free states.Fugitive slavesLegal status, laws, etc.SlaveryLaw and legislationHistorySectionalism (United States)History973.5Finkelman Paul1949-626812Kennon Donald R.1948-246461United States Capitol Historical Society.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790401103321Congress and the crisis of the 1850s3689457UNINA