COMPROMISE OF 1850

The Compromise of 1850 includes five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the controversy of slavery. In 1849 California requested permission to enter the Union as a free state, potentially upsetting the balance between the free and slave states in the U.S. Senate.

Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of alternitive solution on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to find a compromise and avoid a crisis between North and South.

As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was o. Aditonally, California entered the Union as a free state and a territorial government was created in Utah.

an act was passed settling a boundary dispute between Texas and New Mexico that also established a territorial government in New Mexico.

FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT

• The fugitive slave act required all white citizens to help catch runaway slaves
• People who let them get away could go to jail for 6+ months
• Judges got $10 for sending people back and $5 for setting them free

WHAT THE NORTH GETS FROM THE COMPROMISE

• Californa admitted as a free state
• Slave trade prohibited in Washington D.C.
• Texas loses boundrey dispute with New Mexico

WHAT THE SOUTH GETS

• No Slavery restrictions in Utah or New Mexico
• Slave holding permitted in Washington D.C.
• Texas gets $10 Million Dollars
• Fugitive Slave Law