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Provisions of the Compromise of 1850
The Compromise balanced sectional interests by enacting the following:
- California was admitted to the Union as a free state
- The New Mexico and Utah territories were to decide the question issue by relying on “popular sovereignty,” allowing the actual settlers to vote on the issue
- Texas lost the New Mexico territory, but received $10 million from the federal government for its loss
- The slave trade in the District of Columbia was abolished
- A new Fugitive Slave Act was passed.
The Compromise of 1850 generated positive and negative results. Its passage quieted sectional animosities for a few years (until the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854) and held off the Civil War for about 10 years. On the other hand, Northerners were so enraged by the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Act that it was impossible to strike future compromises.
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