1800–1858: The North and the South Seek Compromise
- Federal authority and states' rights
- Missouri Compromise
- Slavery and the war with Mexico
- Compromise of 1850
- Fugitive Slave Act
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- The fight over slavery in "Bleeding Kansas"
- Buchanan supports the Lecompton Constitution
- Legislation triggers political upheaval
- Words to Know
- People to Know
- John C. Calhoun, the South's Most Powerful Voice
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