MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
COMPROMISE OF 1850
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Permitted slavery in Washington, D.C., but outlawed the slave trade
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Added California to the Union as a “free state”
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Established Utah and New Mexico as territories that could decide via popular sovereignty if they would permit slaver
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Defined new boundaries for the state of Texas following the Mexican-American War
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The Fugitive Slave Act which required citizens to assist in the capture of escaped slaves
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Compromise of 1850, in U.S. history, a series of measures proposed by the “great compromiser, ” Sen. Henry Clay of Kentucky, and passed by the U.S. Congress in an effort to settle several outstanding slavery issues and to avert the threat of dissolution of the Union.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.