1. The Compromise of 1850
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Why do you think that the Compromise of 1850 did not wholly defuse the tension in the United States in the 1850s?
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In September of 1850, the United States Congress passed five bills meant to defuse tension between slave states and free states. The bills included permitting California to enter the Union as a free state, strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, territorial aspirations and future concerns of the US expansion, and more. The tension, however, was not wholly defused.
