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The Compromise of 1850 was a set of laws passed dealing with the controversial issue of slavery.

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In the mexican american war the states won a lot of land

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From this war the the conflict arose that what type of territory would the new territory be. Slave trade, or free

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The Fugitive Slave Acts were a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States.

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It decided whether the new territory would be slave trade  states or free states

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Enacted by Congress in 1793

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The first Fugitive Slave Act authorized local governments to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who aided in their flight.

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Henry Clay of Kentucky, Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, and John C. Calhoun of South Carolina

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Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which added further provisions regarding runaways and levied even harsher punishments for interfering in their capture.

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Five separate bills to deal with this problem

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The Fugitive Slave Acts were among the most controversial laws of the early 19th century.

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Many Northern states passed special legislation in an attempt to circumvent them.

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Both laws were formally repealed by an act of Congress in 1864.

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The compromise made texas a slave state and california a free state

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It also made it so the new lands type of territory would be decided by the people in them

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The passage of the Fugitive Slave Acts resulted in many free blacks being illegally captured and sold into slavery. One famous case concerned Solomon Northup, a freeborn black musician who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. in 1841. Northup would spend 12 years as a slave in Louisiana before winning back his freedom in 1853.

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this helped manifest destiney by expanding the territory of the us

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New York passed a 1705 measure designed to prevent runaways from fleeing to Canada, and Virginia and Maryland drafted laws offering bounties for the capture and return of escaped slaves.

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this event took place in the us