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ISBN13: 9780395353004 ISBN10: 0395353009 Material Type: hardcover

America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union Health Law While on a stopover inThe spellbinding story behind the longest debate in US Senate history: the Compromise of 1850, which brought together Senate luminaries on the eve of the Civil War in a desperate effort to save the Union. The Mexican War introduced vast new territories into the United States, among them California and the present day Southwest. When gold was discovered in California in the great Gold Rush of 1849, the population swelled, and settlers petitioned for