SummaryAgreements made in order to admit California into the Union as a free state. These agreements included allowing the New Mexico and Utah territories to decide whether to allow slavery, outlawing the slave trade in Washington, D.C. and creating a stronger fugitive slave law.
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EffectIt pleased just about everyone. Henry Clay came up with a comprise that pleased pro slavery and anti slavery and California was admitted as free state. The slave trade was no longer in D.C. and Congress would pass harsher fugitive slave law.
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