By: Saarah Amin, Batoul Kooli,Shahad Abdulsahib.

 After the Mexican War, more than 500,000 square miles of land was added to the United States.  Slavery became an issue because nobody had decided if the land was slave states or free states.  President James K Polk wanted to divide the Mexican Cession into free states and slave states.  Some Northerners wanted to prohibit slavery in the Mexican Cession.

 The Wilmot Proviso was proposed during the Mexican War by David Wilmot.  It stated that slavery would never exist in the Mexican Cession.  The House of Representatives passed the proviso.  It died in the Senate because the south had more power.  The Wilmot Proviso never became a law.

 The Free Soil Party was formed in  The Free Soilers supported the Wilmot Proviso.  Martin Van Buren was chosen as the Free Soil Party candidate.  The new party one 10% of the popular vote.  It consisted of Whig Party members and Democratic Party members.  In 1854, the Whigs alliance with the Free Soilers was broken. This was how the party came to an end.

 5 different things happened during the Compromise of They were: California entered the union as a free state New Mexico and Utah were allowed to choose whether they wanted to be free states or slave states The Republic of Texas would be given $10 million to pay off their debt to Mexico Trading slaves was abolished in Washington DC The fugitive slave act made any federal official liable to pay a fine if they didn’t arrest an escaped slave.  This compromise was established by Henry Clay.

 Henry Clay established many of the compromises that took place.  He established the Missouri Compromise, The Nullification Crisis, and The Compromise of  He was eventually nicknamed “ The Great Compromiser.”  He supported the emancipation of slaves.

 It was a law that made federal officials have to pay a fine if they didn’t arrest an escaped slave.  Any official who arrested an escaped slave was paid 10 dollars.  Anthony Burns was one of the slaves that was arrested during this time.  Abolitionists nicknamed this act “The Bloodhound Law”, because bloodhounds were used to track down escaped slaves.

 Daniel Webster agreed with the Fugitive Slave Act.  One of his most important speeches was “March the Seventh”. In it he expressed his opinion of the Fugitive Slave Act.  He was later attacked by abolitionists who called him evil, mean, and cruel.  He ran for president in 1852, but died right before the election.

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