The 1850 Compromise.

1.California was admitted as a free state.

2.The Slave trade was abolished , not Slavery in the District of Columbia.

3.The territory of New Mexico including Arizona and Utah were organized under the rule of popular sovereigny.

4. And the Main compromise for Slaveholders, was a harsher Fugitive Slave Act.

5.Texas gave up much of the western land in which it claimed. The US gave Texas 10 milliom to give up that claim.

The Slave States were speaking of Sccession in the 1840s. The 1850 Compromise postponed the Civil War for 10 years. For the frist time this harsher Fugitive Slave Act inforced by the US Govnment told every white American that you had to turn in runaway Slaves that you came in contact with. This did not sit well with Abolitionists who were Anti Slavery. And now the Anti Slavery movement was now steam rolling toward 1860.