Timeline to War. Territorial Expansion and delaying the inevitable 1803 Louisiana Purchase Mexican Cession after Mexican War - both led to debate over.
A Nation in Crisis (The marriage gets rocky) “The agitation in the subject of slavery would, if not prevented by some timely and effective measure, end.
THE EARLY 1850s: (350-351) –Compromise of 1850: agreement proposed by Henry Clay; allowed California to enter the United States as a free-state and divided.
Divisive Politics of Slavery “I have, Senators, believed from the first that the agitation of the subject of slavery would, if not prevented by some timely.
The Union in Peril