Nashville Convention
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The Nashville Convention was a political meeting held in Nashville, Tennessee, on June 3–11, 1850. Delegates from nine slave states met to consider secession, if the United States Congress decided to
Proceedings of the Nashville Convention
Missouri Compromise
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The Missouri Compromise was federal legislation of the United States that balanced the desires of northern states to prevent the expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to ex
President James Monroe, who signed the Missouri Compromise
Thomas Jefferson: The Missouri crisis roused Thomas Jefferson "like a fire bell in the night".
Rufus King, the last of the Federalist icons
Diagram of the Old Senate Chamber