The compromise of 1850
- Was the decision for the bill's provision which were the readmission of California as a free state, the formation of territorial governments in the rest of the lands acquired form Mexico without restrictions on slavery, the abolition of the slave trade but not slavery itself
- Clay appealed to shared sentiments of nationalism
- Six months after the debate, Congress defeated the Clay proposal and went into new leaders
- The new leaders were able to produce a compromise