Describe the key terms of the Compromise of 1850 and trace the process by which it was enacted.
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Terms: Fugitive Slave Law, California as a free state, Texas-New Mexico boundary settlement, slave trade banned in the District of Columbia, no restrictions against slavery in the cession territory.
Process: Clay’s Omnibus Bill failed; Douglas presented each proposal separately, each was debated; changing majorities passed the five proposals.
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