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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 decision on slavery left to popular sovereignty, the abolition of the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and the implementation of a stricter Fugitive Slave Act. This complex compromise sought to maintain the balance of power between North and South but ultimately failed to resolve the underlying conflicts over slavery.

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