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He created the Compromise of 1850. Which called for four things: 1. California was admitted to the Union as a free state. 2. The rest of the Mexican Cession was divided into the territories of New Mexico and Utah. People in these territories would decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery. 3. The slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C. 4. Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law. This law stated that people in the free states had to help find and capture fugitive, or escaped, slaves.
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