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How many free states were there in 1850 after the compromise was passed

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The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).
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At the time there were 11 free states and 10 slave states
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