BlueandGrayl
First Sergeant
- Joined
- May 27, 2018
- Location
- Corona, California
As all of us CWT folks know the Compromise of 1850 was crafted by Kentucky Whig Senator Henry Clay and was passed by Congress in September 1850 it layed out the following terms:
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Before the compromise:
Territorial results of the Compromise:
However pretty much up until September 1850 the question regarding Western territories was one of hot debate and it divided the Democrats and Whigs along sectional lines and at one point Texas threatened to send its militia (the Texas Rangers) to enforce its claims on New Mexico even going as far as sending Robert S. Neighbors on an expedition to the area which needless to say angered local New Mexican residents (Anglo or Latino) and Zachary Taylor as well as his successor Millard Fillmore were pretty adamant in using force against any potential conflict between Texas militia and U.S. military garrison, certain newspapers and contemporaries who wrote during the tenous period saw civil war and disunion could break out if the state of Texas and the United States government ever got into a fight.
The books I recommend reading to know about how these tenous 9 months in 1850 went are: America's Great Debate (2012) by Fergus M. Bordevich, On the Brink of Civil War (2003) by John C. Waugh, and Prologue to Conflict (1964) by Holman Hamilton I incorported the events detailed into some of my posts and they should be read.
https://books.google.com/books/about/America_s_Great_Debate.html?id=uWM8YONfaC4C
https://books.google.com/books/about/On_the_Brink_of_Civil_War.html?id=K1CD0uBbumwC
https://books.google.com/books/abou...ml?id=jr46nwEACAAJ&source=kp_book_description
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Before the compromise:
- (Gold Rush) California applies to become a free state
- Texas claims territory as far as the Rio Grande
- New Mexico resists Texas, applies to become a free state
Territorial results of the Compromise:
- California is admitted as a free state
- Texas trades some territorial claims for debt relief
- New Mexico becomes New Mexico Territory with slavery undecided
- Texas surrendered its claim to New Mexico as well as its claims north of 36°30'. It retained the Texas Panhandle, and the federal government took over the state's public debt.
- California was admitted as a free state, with its current boundaries.
- The South prevented adoption of the Wilmot Proviso that would have outlawed slavery in the new territories, and the new Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory were allowed, under popular sovereignty, to decide whether to allow slavery within their borders. In practice, these lands were generally unsuited to plantation agriculture, and their settlers were uninterested in slavery.
- The slave trade, but not slavery altogether, was banned in the District of Columbia.
- A more stringent Fugitive Slave Law was enacted.
However pretty much up until September 1850 the question regarding Western territories was one of hot debate and it divided the Democrats and Whigs along sectional lines and at one point Texas threatened to send its militia (the Texas Rangers) to enforce its claims on New Mexico even going as far as sending Robert S. Neighbors on an expedition to the area which needless to say angered local New Mexican residents (Anglo or Latino) and Zachary Taylor as well as his successor Millard Fillmore were pretty adamant in using force against any potential conflict between Texas militia and U.S. military garrison, certain newspapers and contemporaries who wrote during the tenous period saw civil war and disunion could break out if the state of Texas and the United States government ever got into a fight.
The books I recommend reading to know about how these tenous 9 months in 1850 went are: America's Great Debate (2012) by Fergus M. Bordevich, On the Brink of Civil War (2003) by John C. Waugh, and Prologue to Conflict (1964) by Holman Hamilton I incorported the events detailed into some of my posts and they should be read.
https://books.google.com/books/about/America_s_Great_Debate.html?id=uWM8YONfaC4C
https://books.google.com/books/about/On_the_Brink_of_Civil_War.html?id=K1CD0uBbumwC
https://books.google.com/books/abou...ml?id=jr46nwEACAAJ&source=kp_book_description