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Home→Published 2017 → December

Monthly Archives: December 2017

OTD in 1860 – the Crittenden Compromise is introduced

Posted on Monday, 18 December 2017 by Mark ThomasDecember 18, 2017

It was on this date in 1860 that Kentucky Senator John J. Crittenden introduced the famous compromise legislation he and others hoped would head off a civil war. Too much, too late The doomed Crittenden Compromise called for six new … Continue reading →

Posted in American Civil War, Slavery
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