Compromise of 1850
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The Compromise of 1850 concerned the entrance of Free Soil California into the 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 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.
