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Article: Compromise of 1850
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- The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Compromise of 1850 The annexation of Texas to the United States and the gain of new territory by the Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo
at the close of the Mexican War (1848) aggravated the hostility between North and South concerning the question of the extension of
slavery
into the territories. The antislavery forces favored the proposal made in the
Wilmot Proviso
to exclude slavery from all the lands acquired from Mexico. This, naturally, met with violent Southern opposition. When California sought (1849) admittance to the Union as a free state, a grave crisis threatened. Also causing friction was the conflict over the boundary claims of Texas, which extended far westward into territory ...
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