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What were the reasons the northerners and southerners in Congress passed the Compromise of 1850?

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North- Cali will have no slaves. D.C. will have no slaves
South- Fugitive slave law (all runaway slaves captured)/ New Mexican War territories can have slaves
Proposed by Henry Clay, who just loves to make everyone happy.

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