The admission of California as a free state.
People in Utah and New Mexico got to vote to decide if they wanted to be a slave or free state.
The Compromise of 1850 included five separate bills that passed Congress to defuse tension between the slaves states of the South and the free states of the North. Henry Clay devised the Compromise and passed it with the help of Stephen Douglas.
Whig senator Henry Clay was the key organizer of the Compromise of 1850. The Compromise of 1850 was actually a set of five separate bills, involving state boundary, territory status, and slavery issues.
By the Missouri Compromise (1820) and the Compromise of 1850. The second one didn't hold. So it was proposed that the people ofeach new state should vote on whether it should be slave or free. That led to bloodshed when it was triedin Kansas. No new states were thenadmitted to the Union (except West Virginia as a Border State in wartime), until after the 13th amendment was passed in December 1865.
The State of California became a free State when the Compromise of 1850 was passed.
After the Compromise of 1850 California became a free State, on September 9, 1850.
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the most controversial part of the 1850 compromise was California becoming a free state.
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