could someone explain The Compromise of 1850 for me?

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so,my history book,makes no sense to me.
and i didn't take notes...

could someone explain it.
like what it was and what it did.
cause i'm tottally lost.

please be breif.

thanks :D
 
Compromise of 1850 was a series of compromises to help relive tensions in the states. It gave concessions to both sides, but all-in-all it favored the north since the south's main concession, the fugitive slave law, wasn't enforced.

Concessions to The North
1.) California Admitted as a free state
2.)Territory disputed by Texas and New Mexico to be surrendered to New Mexico (New Mexico was open to popular sovereignty, so it had a chance to be free)
3.) Abolition of the slave trade (but not slavery) in the District of Columbia

Concessions to the South
1.) The remainder of Mexican Cession area to be formed into the territories of New Mexico and Utah (open to popular sovereignty, so still had a chance to be slave)
2.) Texas to receive $10 million from the federal government as compensation
3.) A more stringent Fugitive Slave Law, going beyond that of 1793
 
I have answered this question three times in the last week, why didn't you search for it first lazy head. I see someone else wrote down a brief synopsis for you, which was dumb of them. People who are too lazy to use search options deserve to fail their assignments.

the compromise of 1850 caused the civil war.
 
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