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No, California was to be free - a major decision that needed a big gesture of appeasement for the South. This gesture was the Fugitive Slave Act that brought the civil war a long step closer.
I'm not sure it admitted any new slave-states. I think it allowed for the states of Utah and New Mexico to be eligible for slavery under certain conditions when the time came.
In what location was slave trading outlawed by the Compromise of 1850?
The Compromise of 1850 abolished slavery in the state of Washington DC. It also allowed California to become part of the union as a slave free state.
What was Stephen A.Douglas's role in passing the Compromise of 1850?
The prospect of California joining the Union as a slave-state, giving them a great slave empire extending all the way to the Pacific.
California was to be admitted as a free state.
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Missouri slave state and Maine non slave state.
In what location was slave trading outlawed by the Compromise of 1850?
The Compromise of 1850 abolished slavery in the state of Washington DC. It also allowed California to become part of the union as a slave free state.
the compromise of 1850
In what location was slave trading outlawed by the Compromise of 1850?
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 required all states to return fugitive slaves to their owners, regardless of whether the state was a slave state or a free state. This act was part of the Compromise of 1850 and was aimed at appeasing Southern slave owners who feared losing their property.
The Fugitive Slave Act was passed in 1850 as part of the Compromise of 1850. This federal law required the return of escaped slaves to their owners, even if they were in a free state.
The Fugitive Slave act was part of the Compromise of 1850. The compromise of 1850 said any new states would be free states as long as they passed the fugitive slave act. This act made Northerners turn in runaway slaves.
What was Stephen A.Douglas's role in passing the Compromise of 1850?
congress declared that it had no power to abolish the slave trade between existing slave states
The Fugitive Slave Law was included in the Compromise of 1850, a package of five bills passed by the United States Congress.