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Tags: United States Congress—History—19th Century

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Southern Chivalry

This political cartoon by Philadelphia printer, John L. Magee, depicts an incident that occurred on the floor of the Senate on May 22, 1856. During a session of Congress, South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks repeatedly struck Massachusetts…

Tags: Andrew Butler, Charles Sumner, fire-eater, John L. Magee, Kansas-Nebraska Act, political cartoon, Pre-Civil War America, Preston Brooks, REGIONALISM, Sectionalism, SLAVERY, Slavery-Law and Legislation, United States Congress—History—19th Century

Congressional Scales

This lithograph by Currier & Ives, an American printmaking firm based in New York, satirized President Zachary Taylor's attempts to balance southern and northern interests in 1850 as they related to slavery in the territories gained in the Mexican…

Tags: Compromise of 1850, Henry Clay, Pre-Civil War America, United States Congress—History—19th Century, Wilmot Proviso, Zachary Taylor

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