Henry Clay's Compromise Of The Civil War

The constitution of California outraged many southerners because the constitution banned the slavery. Henry Clay worked to make a compromise that would both satisfy the South and the North. With the support of Daniel Webster, a powerful senator of Massachusetts, Henry Clay presented to the Senate a series of resolutions later called The Compromise of 1850. In order to appease North, the compromise regulated that California be admitted to the Union as a free state. To please the South, the compromise proposed a new and more effective fugitive slave law. To appease both sides, there was a provision allowed the right to vote for or against slavery called popular sovereignty. Even though Henry Clay put great effort on the compromise, the