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- Compromise of 1850
Compromise on slavery in U.S. territories annexed from Mexico in the Mexican-American war
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. Designed by Whig senator Henry Clay and Democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas, with the support of President Millard Fillmore, the compromise centered on how to handle sl... Wikipedia
