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Describe the arguments that took place over whether slavery should be allowed to expand into the new territories, and explain how the Compromise of 1850 was supposed to settle the issue.

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The Compromise of 1850

In September of 1850, 5 laws were passed through Sen. Henry Clay by the then US Congress that came to be known as the Compromise of 1850. At this point in time in US history, the issue of slavery became a divisive topic. The agricultural plantation states in the South heavily depended upon slave labor while Northern states, which were more industrial, were not. Slavery became a political and moral issue (abolitionist campaigned for slavery abolition). The Territories gained by the US from the Mexican-American War (1846-48) which were then referred to as the Texas territories were being arranged to be formed as potential states of the Union. ...

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