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What is the Pearce Act?

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Wildgrace

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16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Also known as the Compromise of 1850.

In US history, legislative proposals designed to resolve the conflict between North and South over the issue of slavery in the new territories. The Compromise was triggered by the request of California to be admitted to the Union as a state without slavery. Various concessions had to be made to the slavery states before California was allowed to do so. Although the Compromise failed to permanently resolve the conflict, it temporarily revitalized the Union, postponing the US Civil War for ten years.

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