North Gets | South Gets |
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California admitted as a free state | No slavery restrictions in Utah or New Mexico territories |
Slave trade prohibited in Washington D.C. | Slaveholding permitted in Washington D.C. |
Texas loses boundary dispute with New Mexico | Texas gets $10 million |
Fugitive Slave Law |
Southerners against secession: The arguments of the constitutional unionists in 1850-51
Kent Vol. 46, Iss. 4, (Dec 2000): 281-299.
1850--one hundred and fifty years ago: Clash of the titans
American Heritage; New York Vol. 51, Iss. 1, (Feb/Mar 2000): 109-11
What Was the Compromise of 1850?
The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Aug., 1956), pp. 292-309 (18 pages)
Map of the United States that denotes free and slave states as well as the territory open to slavery or freedom by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, c. 1856.
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Millard Fillmore - the 13th President of the USA (1850-53), last Whig president, succeeded from the Vice Presidency on the death of Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), enacted the Fugitive Slave Act as part of the Compromise of 1850.
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Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858), Senator from Missouri who opposed the 1850 Compromise regarding slavery in the United States.
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Howell Cobb (1815-1868), Southern congressman who supported the Union and the Compromise of 1850 regarding slavery in the United States.
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