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Subsections in this chapter are Wilmot’s Proviso; Popular Sovereignty; Three Senatorial Giants: Clay, Calhoun and Webster; and The Compromise of 1850. A primary source feature is an excerpt from “The Wilmot Proviso, 1846.” There is also a chart titled “Compromise of 1850.”