Calhoun served as secretary of war, vice president, secretary of state, and finally as U.S. senator, where his final act was to help craft the Compromise of 1850. He repeatedly warned that war was ...

This caused him to be denied re-nomination by the Whigs. Major Acts: Millard Fillmore signed the Compromise of 1850, which delayed the Civil War for a decade. The Compromise outlined that California ...

The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.

Died: March 8, 1874. The compromise of 1850, hammered out by Daniel Webster and Henry Clay in an attempt to forestall or prevent a civil war over the issue of slavery, was making its way through ...

In a campaign devoid of issues—for example, both parties endorsed the Compromise of 1850—Pierce defeated the Whig Party nominee, war hero Winfield Scott. Challenges: Franklin Pierce had to deal with ...