Essentials of United States history . The Result of the Compromise of 1850. 1. California to be admitted as a free state. 2. The slave trade to be prohibited in the District ofColumbia, though slavery still continued there. 3. The rest of the Mexican cession to be organized intotwo territories, Utah and New Mexico, with or withoutslavery, as each should decide. 4. Texas to be paid ten million dollars for portions of herpublic lands. (These lands are now included in New Mexico,Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma.) 250 ESSENTIALS OF UNITED STATES HISTORY 5. A strict Fugitive Slave Law to be enacted.

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Essentials of United States history . The Result of the Compromise of 1850. 1. California to be admitted as a free state. 2. The slave trade to be prohibited in the District ofColumbia, though slavery still continued there. 3. The rest of the Mexican cession to be organized intotwo territories, Utah and New Mexico, with or withoutslavery, as each should decide. 4. Texas to be paid ten million dollars for portions of herpublic lands. (These lands are now included in New Mexico,Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma.) 250 ESSENTIALS OF UNITED STATES HISTORY 5. A strict Fugitive Slave Law to be enacted. The Fugitive Slave Law which was passed required thecitizens of the free states to aid United States officers incapturing runaway slaves. The law was opposed by manyNorthern people, and most of the free states passed whatwere called Personal Liberty bills, which interfered with itsexecution. The passage of these bills greatly angered thepeople of the South. Thus the slavery controversy in-creased; the breach was widened, and the alie

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