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September After much debate the U.S. Congress agrees to the Compromise of 1850: California is to be a free state; the residents of New Mexico and Utah are to decide whether or not to have slavery; the slave trade in the District of Columbia is abolished; and a stricter fugitive-slave law is implemented.
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