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Sound Smart: Compromise of 1850 | History

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This was an agreement made in order to admit California into the Union as a free state. These agreements included allowing the New Mexico and Utah territories to decide whether to allow slavery, outlawing the slave trade in Washington D.C., and creating a stronger fugitive slave law.

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In 1849, California applied to Congress for statehood. Southerners rejected California's request as this would have upset the balance between free and slave states.

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After Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in 1831, white Southerners began to fear for their traditional way of life. Individual slaves continuously escaped to the North and these fugitive slaves often had help from abolitionist. Slaveholders demanded Congress pass a fugitive slave law to help them recapture their property.

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Wilmot Proviso & Tallmadge Amendment Reviewed

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David Wilmot added an amendment to an 1846 bill known as the Wilmot Proviso (a condition added to an agreement) that stated neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall every exist in any part of the territory acquired in the war with Mexico. Southerns strongly opposed and maintained Congress had no right to make this decision for the states, resulting in the Wilmot Proviso being rejected in the Senate.

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Abolitionist were unhappy over the Missouri compromise and called Northerners who voted for it traitors. They would continue to flood Congress with antislavery petitions. Southerners believed Congress had overstepped their powers by deciding for future states if they would be allowed to have slaves for them.

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The Missouri Compromise Explained: US History Review

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An agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state. A line was drawn west of the Mississippi River at 36°30', allowing no new slave states to be created north of that line.