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The Compromise of 1850 aimed to ease tensions between slave and free states by admitting California as a free state, allowing popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah, and enacting a stronger Fugitive Slave Law. Pros included the temporary reduction of sectional conflict and the preservation of the Union for a time. However, the cons included the anger it provoked among abolitionists and free states due to the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, which intensified divisions and ultimately contributed to the Civil War. Additionally, the compromise failed to provide a long-term solution to the issue of slavery in the expanding United States.

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