Seek to preserve Western lands free for white labor. Organized by Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott. Widespread anti-monarchist revolution in Europe . Slavery abolished in France and its colonies. 1850 Henry Clay returns to Senate.
Compromise resolves dispute over territories seized from Mexico.
Admits CA with slavery prohibited. Prohibition of domestic slave trade in DC balanced by strengthened Fugitive Slave Law . Whigs begin to break up over slavery issue. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin . Death of Daniel Webster.