Exercise Three
Research the sessions of the House of Representatives and the Senate using information from your text and the following websites:



House of Representatives:
http://clerk.house.gov/histHigh/Congressional_History/index.html
http://clerk.house.gov/histHigh/Congressional_History/partyDiv.html
Senate:
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/one_item_and_teasers/
chronology.htm
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/one_item_and_teasers/
partydiv.htm
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/b_three_sections_with_teasers/
essays.htm



1. Looking at the records of the House of Representatives and the Senate, determine which political faction or party dominated each legislative body from the Eighteenth through the Thirty-Sixth Sessions.
2. How did the positions of the dominant political party affect the following legislative actions:

a. Tariffs of 1824, 1828 (Tariff of Abominations), 1832 and 1833
b. Force Bill
c. Gag Rule
d. Mexican War
e. Wilmot Proviso
f. Compromise of 1850
g. Kansas-Nebraska Act
h. Crittenden Compromise