Analyze The Reasons For The Compromise Of 1850 To 1860
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The Compromise of 1850 proved to be another temperary solution to a much bigger problem. As tensions grew between Texas (which the rest of the South backed) and the Federal Government over the boarder of Texas and New Mexico grew, the South started having talks of secession (evident by the Nashville Covention of 1850). President Taylor thought these talks were a bluff from the South. Henry Clay (who unretired) and Daniel Webster decided to make another compromise to sooth tensions. The terms were the following: California was going to be admitted into the Union as a free state, Utah and New Mexico would be organised into territories, the Washington, D.C. slave trade would be ended, a new Fugitive Slave Act was to be passed, and Texas would