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The Triumph of Nationalism/The House Dividing
Topic: Culture of the Common ManTopic: Cult of DomesticityTopic: ReligionTopic: ExpansionTopic: America in 1850
America in 1850
Overview of Triumph of Nationalism
Resource Menu: America 1850
Text 1. John C. Calhoun
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Text 2. Daniel Webster
Text 3. William Henry Seward
Text 4. Henry Clay
Text 5. Henry David Thoreau
Text 6. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Text 7. Frederick Douglass


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1.  John C. Calhoun on the Clay Compromise Measures, U.S. Senate, March 4, 1850

John C. Calhoun
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https://www.nationalcenter.org/CalhounClayCompromise.html

Note: Title of this page is "The Clay Compromise Measures"


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Overview of Calhoun, from the Library of Congress

Timeline of Calhoun's life, from the Biographical Dictionary of the U.S. Congress

Overview of the Compromise of 1850, from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History






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