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Mar 28, 2024 · Compromise of 1850, in U.S. history, a series of measures proposed by the ‘great compromiser,’ Sen. Henry Clay of Kentucky, and passed by Congress in an effort to settle several outstanding slavery issues and to avert the threat of dissolution of the Union.
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that temporarily defused tensions between slave and free states in the years leading up to the American Civil War.
Oct 27, 2009 · The Compromise of 1850 was made up of five bills that attempted to resolve disputes over slavery in new territories added to the United States in the wake of the Mexican-American War...
The map shows the changes in the geopolitical situation under the Compromise of 1850. Green states are the free states where slavery was not allowed. California and Oregon were added to the free states. The territories of Utah and New Mexico, in purple, were organized and opened to slavery by popular sovereignty.
Map depicting the area of the Mexican Cession, including the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, and portions of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. The Mexican Cession. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons
