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The '''Compromise of 1850''' concerned the entrance of [[Free Soil Party|Free Soil]] [[California]] into the [[United States|Union]]. [[Henry Clay]], in the last of his three compromises, mediated between the North and South. For the North, California was admitted as a free state, [[New Mexico]] was granted all lands in question in its border dispute with [[Texas]], and the [[slavery|slave trade]] was abolished in [[Washington, D.C.]] For the South, Clay promised a harsher [[Fugitive Slave Law]], $10 million to Texas from the federal government in exchange for the New Mexican lands, and opened the New Mexico and [[Utah]] Territories to [[popular sovereignty]].

The '''Compromise of 1850''' concerned the entrance of [[Free Soil Party|Free Soil]] [[California]] into the [[United States|Union]]. [[Henry Clay]], in the last of his three compromises, mediated between the North and South. For the North, California was admitted as a free state, [[New Mexico]] was granted all lands in question in its border dispute with [[Texas]], and the [[slavery|slave trade]] was abolished in [[Washington, D.C.]] For the South, Clay promised a harsher [[Fugitive Slave Law]], $10 million to Texas from the federal government in exchange for the New Mexican lands, and opened the New Mexico and [[Utah]] Territories to [[popular sovereignty]].