the compromise of 1850
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where did most southerners live in the mid- 1850's ? cities and plantations
because they dissagread
the proviso would upset the balance of power between the north and the south
California became a state in 1850 in the middle of the slavery discussion and it came in free. This changed the balance of power in Congress.
The Fugitive Slave Act. It turned ordinary citizens into unpaid slave-catchers, and provoked Harriet Beecher Stowe into writing 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.