Calhoun asked Henry Clay to help him come up with compromise. ... In January of 1850 Senator Henry Clay proposed a plan. ... The third and Fourth parts were tied into each other, the third part was that Land in dispute between New Mexico and Texas would go to New Mexico and for giving up this land Texas would receive 10 million dollars. ... In 1854 there was a bill that formed two territories in the Louisiana Purchase, these states were Kansas and Nebraska. ... With two governments fighting for control law and order broke apart. ...

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

He states that physical differences will forever keep the two races apart and makes it clear that the two races are undoubtedly different in intellect, morals, and color- with a tone sounding almost bothered by the fact.2 Less than a month later, Douglas and Lincoln had their fourth debate in another Illinois town. ... He clearly states that black races should not have political or social equality, rights to vote or be part of a jury, or ability to hold office. ... In one case, a professor by the name of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. noticed that Lincoln was using the n-word in public. ...

• Word Count: 1066
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

History In the 1860 presidential election, Republicans, led by Abraham Lincoln, supported banning slavery in all the U.S. territories, something the Southern states viewed as a violation of their constitutional rights and as being part of a plan to eventually abolish slavery. ... Confederates fought to protect southern society, and slavery as an integral part of it. ... The fourth theory was advocated by Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis, one of state sovereignty, also known as the "Calhoun doctrine," named after the South Carolinian political theorist and statesman John C. ... Rejecting ...

• Word Count: 7511
• Approx Pages: 30
• Grade Level: High School