What did the Compromise of 1850 offer to people who supported slavery? What did it offer to those who opposed it?

... Adam Ryan 6th period 11/8/02 U.S. History 1. What did the Compromise of 1850 offer to people who supported slavery? What did it offer to those who opposed it? During the mid 1800s, the possibility of the United States becoming two nations seemed to have become very real. Something had to be done to stop this from happening. Henry Clay, a U.S. senator, worked very hard to develop a compromise that would satisfy both the North and the South. Clay went to visit his past rival, Daniel Webster, who agreed to support Clay's compromise. On January 9, 1850, Clay presented the senate a series of resolutions, which later became known as the Compromise of 1850. Clay hoped that these resolutions would take care of the problems between the free and slave states dealing with slavery. The Compromise of 1850 offered things that were supposed to satisfy those who supported slavery and those

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