jan 29, 1850 - Compromise of 1850

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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

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