Compromise of 1850

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The Compromise of 1850 helped ease tensions between the North and South, but only resulted in the further separation of the two. As a result of the compromise, California was admitted to the union as a free state, the slave trade was abolished in Washington DC, a stricter, national fugitive slave law was passed, and slavery was not banned in territory won in the Mexican-American war, which nullified the Wilmot Proviso and greatly hurt the Free Soil Party.