Compromise of 1850
- Brokered by Stephen A. Douglas
- Basically the same plan Henry Clay proposed
- California entered the Union as a free state
- New Mexico and Utah became territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty
- Texas accepted its boundary with New Mexico and received $10 million dollars from the Federal government
- Congress ended the slave trade in the District of Columbia
- Congress enacted a more stringent fugitive slave law
- Signed into law by President Millard Fillmore
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