The Compromise of 1850
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- Compromise of 1850
- The South prevent adoption of the Wilmot Proviso
- Utah and New Mexico territory given popular sovereignty (lands not suited to agriculture)
- Before compromise, land claimed but never controlled by the state of Texas
- Wilmot Proviso- outlawing slavery in the land obtained from Mexico
- introduced in August 1846
- Utah and New Mexico territory given popular sovereignty (lands not suited to agriculture)
- California admitted as a free state with current boundaries
- Polk tried to get a territorial government set up but sectional debates prevented it
- South wanted to extend slavery to south California but north didn't
- late 1848- California Gold Rush increased population
- Constitutional Convention- 1849, slavery unanimously outlawed.
- admitted as a free state in Sep 1850
- Constitutional Convention- 1849, slavery unanimously outlawed.
- Polk tried to get a territorial government set up but sectional debates prevented it
- Slave trade banned in District of Columbia
- Southerners in Congress, unanimous in opposing the provision. They were outvoted.
- Texas- surrender claims to New Mexico and land north of Missouri Compromise line
- Republic of Texas won the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836
- Captured Mexican President, signed Treaty
- recognised Rio Grande boundary
- Treaty repudiated by government of Mexico, promised to reclaim lost territories.
- Mexico treated Nueces River
- Captured Mexican President, signed Treaty
- December 1845- Texas annexed to the USA
- Took on the problems of the Nueces/Rio Grande controversy
- Mexican-American War- concluded with the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
- 1846-1848
- James Polk- proposed to Mexico in 1845 that they purchase the lands between Nueces and Rio Grande. They rejected this so Polk moved forces further south. Provoked Mexican forces.
- Mexican-American War- concluded with the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
- Took on the problems of the Nueces/Rio Grande controversy
- Republic of Texas won the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836
- Fugitive Slave Law
- assisting with the return of escaped slaves
- Slaves could not ask for a jury trial or advocate for themselves
- assisting with the return of escaped slaves
- The South prevent adoption of the Wilmot Proviso
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