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Missouri Compromise (1820)
1820 compromise over the expansion of slavery into new territories applying for statehood
Daniel Webster, "The Constitution and the Union" Speech to the Senate, March 7, 1850
Speech delivered by Daniel Webster urging compromise between the free and slave states, 1850
Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address (1861)
Abraham Lincoln’s first speech to the nation upon taking office, in which he addresses the crisis of southern states’ secession.
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