The Compromise of 1850 was a series of five laws that were passed in September of 1850 to deal with the issue of slavery. In 1849, California requested permission to enter the Union as a free state, potentially altering the balance between the free and the slave states in the Senate. The document was introduced as an attempt to seek a compromise between North and South and avoid a crisis.
As part of this compromise, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D. C. was abolished.
The colonies advertised the middle colonies in Europe to help attract more settlers. People that moved to the middle colonies to escape any type of religious persecutions. <span />
Erasmus was a Dutch humanist who became a monk and a scholar with the many reformers of his time, Erasmus saw the leaders of his church abusing their powers.
