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Rather reluctantly, yes. (It meant allowing the vast new state of California to enter the Union as free soil.)

To get their support, it was necessary for Congress to make a dramatic gesture of appeasement, and this was the Fugitive Slave Act, which was highly unpopular in the North, and actually brought war closer.

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