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What is the comprimise of 1850?
The comprimise of 1850 is when Mr. Henry Clay comes back into action from our whole counrty falling apart. It was an intricate package of five bills, passed on September 4, 18…50, defusing a four-year confrontation between the http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Slave_state of the http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Southern_United_States and the http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Free_state_(USA ) of the North that arose from expectation of http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Territorial_expansion_of_the_United_States with the http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Texas_Annexation (December 29, 1845) and the following http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Mexican-American_War (1846--1848). It avoided secession or http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/American_Civil_War at the time and quieted sectional conflict for four years until the divisive http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Kansas âÂÂNebraska_Act. The Compromise was greeted with relief though each side disliked specific provisions. Texas gave up its claim to http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/New_Mexico but received debt relief, http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/El_Paso , and the http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Texas_Panhandle . The South did not get their keenly desired Pacific territory in http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Southern_California or extension of the http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Missouri_Compromise line allowing slavery anywhere south of http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Parallel_36 ð30'_north. As compensation, the South got the possibility of slave states via http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Popular_sovereignty in the new http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/New_Mexico_Territory and http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Utah_Territory , which however were unsuited to plantation agriculture and populated by non-Southerners; a stronger http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Fugitive_Slave_Law_of_1850 , which in practice outraged Northern public opinion; and preservation of slavery in the national capital, though the slave trade was banned there except in the Virginia portion of the http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/District_of_Columbia which rejoined Virginia. The Compromise became possible after the sudden death of President http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Zachary_Taylor who although a slaveowner himself tried to implement the Northern policy of excluding slavery from the Southwest. http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States ) http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/United_States_Senate http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Henry_Clay ( http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Kentucky ) designed a compromise which failed to pass in early 1850; in the next session of Congress, http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States ) Senator http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Stephen_Douglas ( http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Illinois ) and Whig Senator http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Daniel_Webster ( http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Massachusetts ) narrowly passed a slightly modified package over opposition by extremists on both sides including Senator and former Vice-President http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/John_C._Calhoun of http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/South_Carolina . (MORE)