USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Compromise of 1850 was the mastermind of Whig senator Henry Clay and Democratic senator Stephan Douglas.

Detailed explanation-3: -He was the seventh House speaker as well as the ninth secretary of state. He unsuccessfully ran for president in the 1824, 1832, and 1844 elections. He helped found both the National Republican Party and the Whig Party.

Detailed explanation-4: -To preserve the Union, Clay’s compromise proposed to bring California into the Union as a free state; allow the New Mexico Territory to decide the slavery issue for itself; and retain slavery in the District of Columbia but abolish its slave trade.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.