a straight, diagonal line from the Rio Grande 20 miles north of El Paso to the Red River (Mississippi watershed) at the 100th meridian west, the southwestern corner of today's Oklahoma. See also Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War References Bibliography Bell, John Frederick. "Poetry's Place in the Crisis and Compromise of 1850." Journal of the Civil War Era 5#3 (2015): 399–421. Hamilton, Holman. Prologue to Conflict: The Crisis and Compromise of 1850 (1964), the standard historical study Holman Hamilton. Zachary Taylor, Soldier in the White House (1951). Heidler, David S., and Jeanne T. Heidler. Henry Clay: The Essential American (2010), major scholarly biography; 624 pp. Holt, Michael F. The Political Crisis of the 1850s (1978). Holt, Michael F. The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War (2005). Johannsen, Robert W. Stephen A. Douglas (1973) Knupfer, Peter B. "Compromise and Statesmanship: Henry Clay's Union." in Knupfer, The Union As It Is: Constitutional Unionism and Sectional Compromise, 1787–1861 (1991), pp. 119–57. Morrison, Michael A. Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War (1997) Nevins, Allan. Ordeal of the Union (1947) v 2, highly detailed narrative Potter, David M. The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861 (1977), pp. 90–120; Pulitzer Prize Remini, Robert. Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union (1991) Remini, Robert. At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise That Saved the Union (2010) 184 pages; the Compromise of 1850 Rhodes, James Ford. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850, vol. i. (1896). complegte text online Rozwenc, Edwin C. ed. The Compromise of 1850. (1957) convenient collection of primary and secondary documents; 102 pp. Sewell, Richard H. Ballots for Freedom: Antislavery Politics in the United States 1837–1860 New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Waugh, John C. On the Brink of Civil War: The Compromise of 1850 and How It Changed the Course of American History (2003) Wiltse, Charles M. John C. Calhoun, Sectionalist, 1840–1850 (1951) External links Compromise of 1850 Compromise of 1850 and related resources from the Library of Congress Texas Library and Archive Commission Page on 1850 Boundary Act Map of North America at the time of the Compromise of 1850 at omniatlas.com 31st United States Congress 1850 in American politics 1850 in California 1850 in New Mexico Territory 1850 in Texas 1850 in Utah Territory 1850