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.
The Compromise of 1850 was a series of legislative measures aimed at easing tensions between slave and free states. It included the admission of California as a free state, the establishment of territorial governments in Utah and New Mexico with the question of slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty, the abolition of the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and the implementation of a stricter Fugitive Slave Law. This compromise was intended to maintain the balance between free and slave states and delay the onset of the Civil War.
The three key compromises on slavery in U.S. history are the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state while Maine entered as a free state, and established a boundary for slavery in the Louisiana Territory. The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a free state while allowing popular sovereignty in other territories and included the Fugitive Slave Act. The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowing settlers in those territories to determine the status of slavery through popular sovereignty, leading to significant conflict known as "Bleeding Kansas."
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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