Congress and the crisis of the 1850s /
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-paralyze...
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Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press,
©2012.
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Series: | Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1801-1877.
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