On January 29, 1850, the 70-year-old Clay presented a compromise. For eight months members of Congress, led by Clay, Daniel Webster, Senator from Massachusetts, and John C. Calhoun, senator from South Carolina, debated the compromise. With the help of Stephen Douglas, a young Democrat from Illinois, a series of bills that would make up the compromise were ushered through Congress.
<span>According to the compromise, Texas would relinquish the land in dispute but, in compensation, be given 10 million dollars -- money it would use to pay off its debt to Mexico. Also, the territories of New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah would be organized without mention of slavery. (The decision would be made by the territories' inhabitants later, when they applied for statehood.) Regarding Washington, the slave trade would be abolished in the District of Columbia, although slavery would still be permitted. Finally, California would be admitted as a free state. To pacify slave-state politicians, who would have objected to the imbalance created by adding another free state, the Fugitive Slave Act was passed.</span>
The Inflation Theory is the most recent theory that upholds the big bang theory, but suggests a sudden expansion after the bang.
Serfs were mostly peasant farmers who provided labor in their masters land. Peasants would pay the lord by working for them in exchange to use their lords land to generate their own food. Serfs did not have money. they were basically slaves. They would work at least three times a week. The serf was bound to work in a single manor. The status of serf was passed down to their children.
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Harran Derrick was a Rancher and he believed that the railroad was cheating him by always passing the point of destination for his goods and him having to pay extra money to get the goods to the final destination.
He also believed that the railroads were taking the land that he spent time to cultivate and using it for their construction purposes which was allowed due to the importance of the development of more rail roads and the rail system in general.