jan 29, 1850 - Compromise of 1850 preserves Union
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Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Stephen A. Douglas
After Fillmore became president, the Whig leaders won the passage of five separate laws. The first was the Fugitive Slave act to support slave catchers with federal support.
The second was the admittance of California as a free state.
The third was resolving the boundary dispute between Texas and New Mexico, the prior getting the advantage/
The fourth was the abolishment of the slave trade in the District of Columbia, though slavery was still legal.
The final law was the compromise that organized the remaining conquered Mexican land, becoming New Mexico and Utah, leaving these states under the control of popular sovereignty.
This compromise was a chance to prolong the survival of the United States as well as the Union. Supposedly, this compromise was supposed to calm everything, but the South was still in fear for what the future held, threatening secession, even taking "men and money, arms and munitions, etc." to keep "southern rights" safe.
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