The compromise of 1850 had a main goal, it was to level off the slave situation in the states. First California was entered as a free sate, while New Mexico and Utah were to be teratories that each decided for themselves wheather they were going to become free or slave states. The slave trade was to be taken off of district Columbia. With it came a fugitive slave act wich said that officers that did not arrest run away slaves were to pay a fine. It also went against the Missouri comprimise, and this infurated lost of people in the north. The terratories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide on their own weather they would allow slavery or not. This lead people to migrate there to win the election and decide. As people for slavery votes too many times, it was considered fraud and was not approved that they won.
When president Abraham Lincoln was elected, he ran a big danger because people were after his blood. Abraham's new nickname became "the rail splitter". He won the election in the democratic party in the election of 1860. There were now issues about braking away from the country, that existed even before then. It now became more urgent that war was neede, the civial war which started the next month after that.
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