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The Compromise of 1850 was made up of five bills that attempted to resolve disputes over slavery in new territories added to the United States in the wake of the Mexican-American War (1846-48).
Compromise of 1850, in U.S. history, a series of measures proposed by the ‘great compromiser,’ Sen. Henry Clay of Kentucky, and passed by Congress in an effort to settle several outstanding slavery issues and to avert the threat of dissolution of the Union.
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that temporarily defused tensions between slave and free states in the years leading up to the American Civil War.
With the Compromise of 1850, Congress had addressed the immediate crisis created by the recent territorial expansion. But one aspect of the compromise – a strengthened fugitive slave act – soon began to threaten sectional peace.
Compromise of 1850, Series of measures passed by the U.S. Congress to settle slavery issues and avert secession. The crisis arose in late 1849 when the territory of California asked to be admitted to the Union with a constitution prohibiting slavery.
The Compromise of 1850, a seminal event in American history, represents a suite of laws passed by the U.S. Congress which aimed to stave off sectional conflict between North and South.
Congress faced with the large acquisition of territory from the Mexican American War needed a drastic compromise. The Compromise of 1850 was Henry Clay and later Congress’s solution to the problem.
The Compromise of 1850 attempted to relieve those tensions, but many in the North felt the South's demands were unreasonable, especilly the hated Fugitive Slave Act, requiring northerners to return fugitives escaping enslavement in the South, and criminalizing any attempt to assist them.
The Compromise of 1850 was a collection of Congressional legislation proposed by Kentucky Senator Henry Clay to resolve sectional issues in the United States regarding slavery after the Mexican-American War.
Most Americans breathed a sigh of relief over the deal brokered in 1850, choosing to believe it had saved the Union. Rather than resolving divisions between the North and the South, however, the compromise stood as a truce in an otherwise white-hot sectional conflict.