MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
COMPROMISE OF 1850
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The Northern states
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Abraham Lincoln
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Henry Clay
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The Southern states
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Detailed explanation-1: -Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.
Detailed explanation-2: -On January 29, 1850, Henry Clay rose in the Old Senate Chamber to begin the most important debate of his career and to forge one last compromise. A Whig from Kentucky, the “Great Compromiser” entered the Senate in 1806, served intermittently over four decades, and became a leading voice in the Senate.
Detailed explanation-3: -Clay decided to resolve all the differences between the North and South over slavery in one grand compromise. Clay’s proposal would admit California to the Union as a free state and organize New Mexico and Utah as territories without any restrictions on slavery.