Opposition to this bill was spearheaded by Calhoun, but Senator Webster and Douglas modified Henry Clay's original proposition, leading to its passage.
James Mason notably had to read a speech drafted by the main opponent of this bill. Henry Foote pulled a gun on another figure during the debate surrounding it. Thomas Hart Benton helped propose some of the territorial lines this bill required. It gave Texas 10 million dollars to fix its border near the Rio del Norte, and the Northern Whigs opposition to this bill was exemplified in one figures "Higher Law" speech. Opposition to this bill was spearheaded by Calhoun, but Senator Webster and Douglas modified Henry Clay's original proposition, leading to its passage. It was created to allow California to enter the Union as a Free State, and it also updated the Fugitive Slave Act. For 10 points, name this bill that prevented the Civil War from happening for another eleven years.
James Mason notably had to read a speech drafted by the main opponent of this bill.
Compromise of 1850