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Proposed by Henry Clay who was known as the Great Compromiser as a way to settle the question of slavery in new areas while also making sure the Union stays together. It allowed: California to become a free state, modern Texas boundaries, popular sovereignty of slavery in Utah and New Mexico, slave trade in DC abolished, and a stronger Fugitive Slave Act
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