southern delegates met at a convention in nashville in the june of 1850 to
Nashville Convention The Nashville Convention was a political meeting held in Nashville, Tennessee, on June 3 â€“ 11, 1850. Delegates from nine slave holding states met to consider a possible course of action if the United States Congress decided to ban slavery in the new territories being added to the country as a result of Westward Expansion and the Mexican-American War. The compromises worked out in Nashville paved the way for the Compromise of 1850, and for a time, averted the dissolution of the United States.