The Compromise of 1850
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The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills, passed in the United States in 1850 by Whig Senator Henry Clay, which defused a four-year argument between the slave states and the free states regarding the status of territories acquired in the Mexican Cession. The compromise avoided secession or civil war and reduced sectional conflict for four years.
- Slave trade prohibited in Washington D.C.
- Texas loses boundary dispute with New Mexico
- Slave holding permitted in Washington D.C.
- Texas got $10 million
- Fugitive Slave Law enhanced
- North Received
- Slave trade prohibited in Washington D.C.
- Texas loses boundary dispute with New Mexico
- South Received
- Slave holding permitted in Washington D.C.
- Texas got $10 million
- Fugitive Slave Law enhanced
Main Ideas:
- Slave and Free states needed a compromise to appeal to both sides on the issue of slavery in the Mexican Cession
- Henry Clay made the Compromise of 1850
- Compromise avoided sectional conflict for years
- North received California and D.C. as free states
- South received Utah, New Mexico, and D.C. to hold slaves
- South also got the fugitive slave law enhanced