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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.
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California was admitted to the Union as a free state.
(Before the American Civil War) a state of the US in which slavery was illegal.
The remainder of the Mexican cession was divided into the two territories of New Mexico and Utah and organized without mention of slavery.
The core of the treaty defined the "Mexican Cession," the territory that Mexico was obliged to cede to the United States as a result of the war. ... The Mexican War was the culmination of a series of conflicts between Mexico and the United States.
The claim of Texas to a portion of New Mexico was satisfied by a payment of $10 million.
Under the compromise, Texas surrendered its claims to present-day New Mexico and other states in return for federal assumption of Texas's public debt.
New legislation (the Fugitive Slave Act) was passed to apprehend runaway slaves and return them to their masters.
Passed on September 18, 1850 by Congress, The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part of the Compromise of 1850. The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves.
The buying and selling of slaves (but not slavery) was abolished in the District of Columbia.
The United States Congress abolished the slave trade in the District of Columbia on September 20, 1850, as part of the legislative package called the Compromise of 1850. Since the founding of the District of Columbia in 1800, enslaved people had lived and worked in the nation's capital.