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Compromise of 1850
California became a free state, the rest of the Mexican Cession was put into Utah and New Mexico, also with the rules of popular sovereignty, they could decide if they were a free or slave state. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
Its purpose was to force northerners send back slave who resided there and give them back to their masters in the south -
The Election of 1852
Democrats Franklin Pierce and William King become President and Vice-President of the United States. -
Gadsden Purchase
It was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a part of Mexico. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Allowed the people residing in those territories choose whether or not if they let slavery within their boundaries. -
Bleeding Kansas
Anti-Slavery and Pro-Slavery both cause havoc among Kansas over if it should be free or not.
