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The Compromise of 1850 was a series of legislative measures aimed at easing tensions between slave and free states. Key components included the admission of California as a free state, the establishment of territorial governments in New Mexico and Utah with the question of slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty, the abolition of the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and the introduction of a stricter Fugitive Slave Act. This compromise aimed to maintain the balance between free and slave states and delay the onset of civil conflict.

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