Compromise of 1850
September 9–20, 1850 · Washington, D.C.
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Compromise of 1850
Five laws passed by the US Congress that admitted California as a free state, organised Utah and New Mexico territories, and enacted a harsher Fugitive Slave Act, delaying the sectional crisis for a decade.
