It allowed California to join the USA as free soil. But to get this law passed, Congress had to make a big show of appeasing the South by enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act, which was enormously unpopular in the North, arousing new interest in Abolitionism.
The Compromise of 1850 was proposed by Henry Clay in obviously 1850. This stated that in order for CA to be admitted into the union that five things had to happen.
the compromise made california a free state
Allowed California to be admitted to the Union as two states - North California and South California, divided along the line of the Missouri Compromise.
the kansas nebraska act, of the compromise of 1850
As its name suggests, it was in 1850! This was when California was coming up for admission to the USA. It was too big to fit the terms of the Missouri Compromise. That's why they needed a new deal.
congress declared that it had no power to abolish the slave trade between existing slave states
The Missouri Compromise The Compromise of 1850 The Kansas-Nebraska Act.
After the Compromise of 1850 California became a free State, on September 9, 1850.
The State of California became a free State when the Compromise of 1850 was passed.
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California is the 31st US State.
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The Compromise of 1850.
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the most controversial part of the 1850 compromise was California becoming a free state.
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