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Was there a compromise in the compromise of 1850?
Yes, it was a rather desperate deal, with concessions to the South to compensate for their agreement to admit California to the Union as free soil.One of these was the Fugitive Slave Act, which...
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Compromise of 1850 and compromise of 1820?
The compromise of 1820 is the missouri compromise and it prohibited slavery in unorganized territory of the great plans. The compromise of 1850 amitted california as a free state.
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What is the compromise of 1850?
It was an act made by Henry Clay declaring California as a free (non-slave) state and allowing popular sovereignty everywhere else.Following the Texas Annexation (December 29, 1845) and the...
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Compromise of 1850?
On January 29, 1850, the 70-year-old Clay presented a compromise. For eight months members of Congress, led by Clay, Daniel Webster, Senator from Massachusetts, and John C. Calhoun, senator from...
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Compare the Missouri compromise and the compromise of 1850?
They were both concerned with the acquisition by America of vast new territories, and the debate over which of the forthcoming states would be slave and which would be free..In the case of the land...