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How did Clay's proposal for Washington DC appeal to both the North and the South

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For the north, it made California a free state and slave trade was banned in Washington D.C. For the south, popular sovereignty would be used for slavery in the rest of the Mexican Cession. They also got a new fugitive slave law.
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