Concept information
social science subjects
politics and international relations
government and politics
political issues
Preferred term
Compromise of 1850
Definition
- Legislative compromise, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1850, that kept the United States together as tensions flared between slave states and free states. The compromise achieved this, in part, by introducing the Fugitive Slave Act, a disastrous law that strongly favored the interests of slaveholders. [Source: Encyclopedia of African American Society; Compromise of 1850]
Broader concept
Belongs to group
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-VW377G93-R
{{label}}
{{#each values }} {{! loop through ConceptPropertyValue objects }}
{{#if prefLabel }}
{{/if}}
{{/each}}
{{#if notation }}{{ notation }} {{/if}}{{ prefLabel }}
{{#ifDifferentLabelLang lang }} ({{ lang }}){{/ifDifferentLabelLang}}
{{#if vocabName }}
{{ vocabName }}
{{/if}}