29 Jan 1850 Jahr - Compromise of 1850

Beschreibung:

a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South consisted of laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty, settling a Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute in the former’s favor, ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and making it easier for southerners to recover fugitive slaves