hello everyone this is a video on the Compromise of 1850 the Compromise of 1850 really came about in response to the Mexican war John C Calhoun famously said that Mexico is a forbidden fruit the penalty of eating it would be subject our institutions to political death Ral Waldo Emerson said the United States Will Conquer Mexico but will be as the man swallows the Arsenic Mexico will poison us really what this is all about is the fact that after we achieved a lot of land from Mexico the question had to be determined what was going to happen to that land was it going to be slave land was it going to be free land and there were three different opinions as to how to handle this newly acquired Mexican session first there was the David Wilmont Free Soil position that slavery should not be allowed to expand into the West next was there was the John C Calhoun resolutions position that it was illegal to prohibit people from taking slaves into the territories because it violated the fifth amendment's uh protection of property the next position the third position kind of the compromis position was Lewis Cass and his idea of popular sovereignty or squatter sovereignty that the people of the settled territories should decide for themselves whether or not there should be slavery and and on the basis of this idea he ran for president in 1848 as a Democrat against wig Zachary Taylor however Taylor the war hero from the Mexican war was able to defeat the uh Democrat Cass as well as Free Soil candidate Martin vanen and he becomes the next president of the United States um shortly thereafter or right around that same time rather gold is discovered at stutter Mill California in 1848 and this Begins the famous Gold Rush of 49 now all these people Set uh you know emerged and excuse me uh descended upon California and what this did was it caused a massive problem you had all these people coming into California uh desperately looking for gold it created a very unstable situation a very violent situation where there was vigilante justice crime murder uh all sorts of disarray and this kind of increased the call for more uh security more laws and the only way to really guarantee that was going to happen is if you made California state and you did it quickly so the state of California or the you know the future of California really um became a major issue in what would become the Compromise of 1850 there were several debates in 1850 one of them was the future of California would it be a Slave state would it be a free state what about the rest of the Mexican session would they be slave states would they be free states would 3630 simply extend Westward uh what about the Texas border there was a dispute over the Western Northwestern part of the Texas border where it actually existed some in the north felt that it was smaller than what it actually was according to the southerners what about slavery in Washington DC many people felt that slave auctions in our nation's capital were embarrassment as foreign dignitaries visited and then finally what about the Underground Railroad the Underground Railroad was very upsetting to Southerners and uh they felt the north was doing nothing to return the runaway slaves the property that escaped into the north only one person could really settle all these debates and that was Henry Quay of Kentucky Quay had had been responsible for other compromises in the past and he tries to put one big compromise bill called an OM bus Bill uh before Congress to get it passed but many people found it objectionable as well including the president of the United States Zachary Taylor however Zachary Taylor passes away and the next president president Millard Filmore takes over and he is less of an obstacle to the compromise than Taylor might have been so here's Henry Quay arguing in front of Congress but still his bill does not pass in the Senate one person however was able to get the bill through the Senate uh and the house and that was Stephen A Douglas and the way he did it was to break the bill up into its separate parts so here are the results of the Compromise of 1850 that Douglas and not clay was able to successfully get passed through Congress first the border with Texas was um reduced down to its present day size Texas lost the disputed territory to New Mexico territory and in exchange Texas received $10 million further the state of California was admitted as a free state the rest of the Mexican session here shown in purple uh was divided up into two chunks Utah territory and New Mexico territory and uh the compromise over Washington DC was that slavery would be allowed to continue but the slave trade would be uh disallowed there would be no more slave auctions in the city of Washington uh also the Fugitive Slave Law what would happen with the Fugitive Slave Law and the the final result of that was that a more uh strict Fugitive Slave Law would be passed by Congress allowing Southerners to pursue their runaway slaves into the north a bill that was despised in the north uh by people who referred to it as The Blood Hound bill so that pretty much wraps up the Compromise of 1850 uh it I don't think it really appeased either side in fact in many cases because the north completely disregarded the Fugitive Slave Law it heightened the situation and made the South even more angry and um that's pretty much it so if you have any questions feel free to email me or to post them on the class Facebook page