The Compromise of 1850
Lecture Notes Available: www.tomrichey.net/blog/compro...
Tom Richey explains the Compromise of 1850, which was put together by Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas in order to try to settle sectional disputes over how to organize the Mexican Cession and the extent to which slavery would be allowed in these territories acquired by Mexico. When California applied for admission to the Union as a free state, Congress was at an impasse.
In order to gain support from some Southern congressmen for admitting California as a free state, Henry Clay proposed a stronger Fugitive Slave Act, which placed the federal government directly in charge of returning runaway slaves. The Fugitive Slave Act would become the most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850 because of its denial of a jury trial to alleged runaways.
The status of slavery was in the New Mexico and Utah territories was to be determined by popular sovereignty (also known as squatter sovereignty), which allowed the settlers to decide the status of slavery rather than Congress. A dispute between the federal government and Texas was also settled regarding land claims that Texas had in the Mexican Cession. In return for $10 million to pay off the state's remaining war debt, Texas relinquished its land claims in the Santa Fe region.
Finally, the slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C., although slavery remained legal there.
Because each provision was controversial in its own way, Henry Clay was not able to put everything into a single bill and Stephen Douglas put together a majority to pass each individual piece of the compromise.
Although Henry Clay and Daniel Webster supported the Compromise, John C. Calhoun did not. Calhoun predicted that the Union would be dissolved and a civil war would ensue as a result of the Compromise, which is exactly what happened after perhaps the most tumultuous decade in the history of the United States: the 1850s.
The content of this video aligns with Period 5 in the AP US History Course Description. This lecture by Tom Richey is more than a crash course - it is a lesson taught by an experienced teacher.
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If Mark Wahlberg went to college
@Billy-bn1rp
4 жыл бұрын
J. Tendean lmao
Great education... Great voice for public speaking as well..
@tomrichey
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the lecture!
As always, your summaries are superb Tom.
@tomrichey
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you, my friend!
LOVE your videos!!! Thanks!!
Thank you Tom for another Educational video. Aloha🤙
Thank you Mr. Damon
Don't study history but still watch and love this channel XD
@kermitthefrog3798
5 жыл бұрын
piano123456789 why
Thanks, man! This really helps!
From one history guy to another, keep lectures like these coming. One request, the Lincoln Douglas debate, what were the main arguing points and how were those points viewed from each side of the isle.
Awesome video thank you!
Im in graduate school. I watched this vid to get some background on the Hidalgo treaty. Thank you!
Thanks, now I’m not failing history
@lunatheweirdo9141
5 жыл бұрын
Razor Edge legit same
I love your videos !!! I am studying US histroy for last 2 weeks now. I watch all sorts of videos; crashcourse, mr.beats, this other guy (i cant remember the name) and by far your videos are the BEST. What I appreciate the most is that your videos are precise, to the point. You cover all the essential rather then going into irrelevant information. Love from Pakistan
Great lecture, thank you.
Can you do a video on the politician that said the Treaty of Versailles was nothing but a 20 year cease fire order? Mentioning the one who said The Missouri Compromise was only going to buy ten years made me think of that.
Thank you!
Great teacher!
Awesome Video Tom! Really helpful for your fans! Can you please give a shoutout to Alex Gofman’s 6th period AP Euro class at Lawrence, New York? It’ll really a lot to us! Thank you for the great videos!!
THANK YOU!!🙏🏼🙏🏼
Can you please help me with simplifying theory of virtue and forms by Plato and Aristotle
Our test is literally today perfect timing 👌
@xGee16
5 жыл бұрын
JoJo Lee what were the question?
Dont tell my teacher im watching this to do work, this wasnt the video that was assigned lol
@cari9845
3 жыл бұрын
no because same lol
Outstanding
The Meme god Tom Richey back at it again gotta love it
Thanks for this, now then let's see if I pass my retake. So what is it then future me.
has your opinion changed in the last few years whether we have reached an equal amount of political polarization as there 1850-1860s America ?
@6:38 Again you skipped the part one of the reasons why Texas ceded the claimed lands the north of the 36°30′ parallel to the Federal government was that the Missouri compromise was still in effect.
Good song Tom.
@tomrichey
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Zachary! You really got a head start on the commenting, didn't you?
@Vizagoth
5 жыл бұрын
Warr
Do one on the upcoming civil was
Mr. Richey. I love your content, but I think it could've been better if it was done in chronological order.
I love you.
I heard that Kansas two state legislatures, one slave, one free.
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he looks like Mark Wahlberg and paul rud had a baby
he is a mix between mark Wahlberg and Matt Damon
thanks mr newhouse for making us watch this lol qwerfjnkcmsdx
@tomrichey
4 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@zak6131
4 жыл бұрын
yes
@samidiab772
4 жыл бұрын
@@zak6131 hi zarek
@zak6131
4 жыл бұрын
hi sami
@annepizza7316
4 жыл бұрын
Tom Richey thank youu!! it was very educational 🤪
Tom Richey for MVP
@3:49 "They (Upper South) wanted this protection (the fugitive slave act) ... from the Federal government" lol. They needed the stronger fugitive slave act from Personal Liberty Laws passed by Free States of the North, not from the Federal government. In fact, the act was a gross over-reaching of power by the Federal government behalf of slave-holding states which sought to protect their human properties. Again, this proves that slave-holding states cared little about the doctrine of state's rights, but only care about their "properties".
Voting is the suggestion box of slaves!
Henry Clay’s kind of a funny lookin fella
@beckyjohns5350
5 жыл бұрын
Please don't say that about anyone else. We don't know if any of Henry descendants and or any descendants of the Clay family is watching this.
@aidanc9298
4 жыл бұрын
@@beckyjohns5350 are you fucking kidding? Holy shit you're soft
@satorudolly
4 жыл бұрын
B J Lol and what are they gonna do about it ? Nada
@micah.3814
3 жыл бұрын
@@beckyjohns5350 ur a funny looking fella
@beckyjohns5350
3 жыл бұрын
@@micah.3814 😆 😆 😆 I'm a Lady
ANGLO DUTCH WARS VIDEO PLEASE
Matt Damon or Mark Wahlberg?
The best deal in American history...oh wait.
pov ur the only kid here watching this bc u weren’t paying attention in class
Vicino
Clay may(?)have been a racist but he was also a genius! 🤔
Warrrrr
@sidoghast
5 жыл бұрын
Huge agree
You must have a license to drive a vehicle, practice medicine. Law, be a Realtor or even cut hair however there are obviously no such qualifications or standards to be a Journalist WhY NOT?
nice joke