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The Compromise For the North... California would be added to the Union as a free state. The slave trade in Washington D.C. ended (slavery didn't). For the South... The Fugitive Slave Act was passed - This act made it easier for slaveholders to find and take back their slaves. The Mexican Cession was divided into two territories - New Mexico and Utah - both would decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty. Finally, a border dispute between Texas and New Mexico was decided in favor of New Mexico. Will this compromise survive? Will I? Old Henry Clay

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