Question

What action decided that California would enter as a free state and put the Fugative Slave Act into place?

Answer 1

US senator Henry Clay presented The Compromise of 1950 which was a composed of bills that resolved to end the debate of several topics that affected the country; among the topics of The Compromise was the admission of California as a free state to the United States of America. Also, it included the Fugitive Slave Act which gave slaveholders the right to captured slaves who had escaped to free states.

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