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This law allowed California to become a free state and gave Southerners a Fugitive slave law

that would return escaped slaves to their southern owners.

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Answer: 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.

Step-by-step explanation:

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