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What was the Compromise of 1850 mainly about?

Answer 1

The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War and thief was a congressional debate over the territories

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Answer 2

In the wake of the Mexican-American War (1846-48), the 1850 Compromise consisted of five bills which attempted to settle conflicts over slavery in new territories added to the United States. It admitted California as a free state, left Utah and New Mexico to determine for itself whether to be a slave state or a free state, established a new frontier between Texas and New Mexico, and made it easier for slave owners to recover runways under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.