The Compromise of 1850 admitted California into the Union as free state, made Texas give up land, as well as ten million dollars, and slavery was abolished in Washington D.C. However, it would unbalance the number of free and slave states in congress and give an advantage to the abolitionists, therefore this compromise had a special condition. This condition, the Fugitive Slave Act, required citizens to aid in the return of fugitive slaves. The Fugitive Slave Act also denied jury trails for slaves and placed more federal agents in the North to enforce the laws. This Compromise bolstered the abolitionist movement and increased tension among the Union. The Georgia Platform accepted the measures of the compromise as long as the North complied with the Fugitive Slave Act and would no longer attempt to ban the expansion of slavery into new territories and states. The Compromise of 1850 temporarily halted the movement for immediate secession throughout the South.
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