It organized Utah and New Mexico as territories and abolished the slave trade in the District of Columbia.
While debating this bill, William Seward delivered the Higher Law speech. It organized Utah and New Mexico as territories and abolished the slave trade in the District of Columbia. Also including an updated version of the Fugitive Slave Act, this bill allowed for the admission of California as a free state. Engineered by Henry Clay thirty years after the Missouri Compromise, this is, for 10 points, what compromise that attempted to solve the issue of slavery.
While debating this bill, William Seward delivered the Higher Law speech.
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