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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. The Points of the Compromise of 1850 Research Compiled for
, Inc. by K. Von Huben 4/2010 Please Introduction As the war with Mexico came to an end, it
was clear that the growing United States was going to acquire vast new amounts of land from the conflict. But what was unclear-and becoming increasingly contentious-was whether the new territories
would be entering the Union as slave or free. This paper discuses the Compromise of 1850, an attempt by the Congress to deal with the increasing tensions in the country
caused by the issue of slavery. Discussion The Compromise of 1850 was actually a series of five laws dealing with the slavery issue; they were all passed in August and
September 1850 (Compromise of 1850, 2010). The proximate cause of the Congressional debate was Californias request, made in 1849, to enter the union as a free state (Compromise of 1850,
2010). If California were to be admitted as a free state, it would upset the balance in Congress, which was evenly divided between representatives from free and slave states; neither
faction wanted the other to have a Congressional majority (Compromise of 1850, 2010). It was Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky who introduced "a series of resolutions" in January, 1850,
in "an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South" (Compromise of 1850, 2010). The five acts encompassed the following: the end of the slave
trade in Washington, D.C.; the entrance of California as a free state; the creation of a territorial government in Utah; the Fugitive Slave Act; and the passage of an act
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