Dr. Thomas R. Maddux

The Unsettling Settlement

I. Expansion and Slavery
	A. Slavery as a cancer and Abraham Lincoln
	B. Slave power conspiracy and Calhoun
	C. Wilmot Proviso

II. Compromise of 1850

	A. President Taylor's approach

	B. Congressional solutions
		1. Extend the Missouri Compromise line
		2. Free soil
		3. Protect slavery
		4. Popular sovereignty

	C. Clay's compromise
		1. California and popular sovereignty
		2. Slave trade and slavery in Washington
		3. Fugitive slave law