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sep 24, 1850 - The Compromise of 1850

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It consisted of laws making California a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with slavery 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.

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sep 24, 1850
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~ 175 years ago

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