1 jan 1850 ano - Compromise of 1850

Descrição:

- Deciding Popular sovereignty (slavery) vs. Free states
- Legislation split into multiple parts to allow for effect of sectionalism to be negated
- CA becomes a free state
- NM and UT will be decided by popular sovereignty
- Slave trade abolished in DC
- Fugitive Slave Act strengthened
- Texas paid for losing NM territory

FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT OF 1850
- Est. federal commissioners that were paid $10 for each slave caught in ANY STATE
- Caught fugitives were tried in jury-less, unjust courts
- Riots started in the North over the Act
- Large wave of Black migration to Canada
- INCREASED SECTIONALISM