MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
COMPROMISE OF 1850
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California joins as a free state.
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Ended selling of slaves in Washington D.C.
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Maine was admitted as a free state.
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A new Fugitive Slave Act was passed.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Compromise of 1850 included all of the following except postponing a decision on the question of slavery in the California territory. California was admitted as a free state in the compromise. All other choices were part of the compromise.
Detailed explanation-2: -The acts called for the admission of California as a “free state, ” provided for a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico, established a boundary between Texas and the United States, called for the abolition of slave trade in Washington, DC, and amended the Fugitive Slave Act.
Detailed explanation-3: -Congress established Maine as the 23rd state under the Missouri Compromise of 1820. This arrangement allowed Maine to join the Union as a free state, with Missouri entering a year later as a slave state, thereby preserving the numerical balance between free and slave states in the nation.