Admitted california as a free state (which tipped the senate balance against the south), opened New Mexico and Utah to popular soverinty (which became free soil due to the "highest law" introduced by William H Seward), ended the slave trade (but not slavery itself) in Washington DC, and introduced a more stringent fugitive slave law. Widely opposed in both the north and south. It did little to settle the escalating dispute over slavery North got better side of the compromise

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