Not long before his death in 1826, Thomas Jefferson famously described America's relationship with slavery as "(H)aving a wolf by the ears...we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go." Decades later, his words proved prophetic, as the unresolved moral and legal questions surrounding slavery escalated into a series of factional disputes which threatened to tear the young republic apart. Featuring important historical figures and terms such as, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, the Missouri Compro