The Compromise of 1850 established the Rio Grande as Texas' southwestern border. It severed New Mexico and northern tracts that became parts of Wyoming, Colorado, Oklahoma and Kansas from Texas ...

A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War David S. Brown. Scribner, $32 (352p) ISBN 978-1-6680-2281-8 ...

The part of the Compromise of 1850.November 17, 2012 | Clip Of U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell on Henry Clay This clip, title, and description were not created by C-SPAN.