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What was the importance of the Compromise of 1850?

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The Compromise of 1850 allowed the addition of some free states and some slave states, strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act, and outlawed the slave trade, but not slavery in the nation's capital.
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the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished

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