The Compromise of 1850 was a set of five separate bills aimed at resolving a four-year political war. These bills were the product of our country’s top political leader’s best attempt at dealing with slavery and territorial disputes that arose from the Mexican-American War. Before the Compromise of 1850 the Union was composed of the northern fifteen free states and the southern fifteen slave states, therefore when California attempted to enter the Union as a free state it caused immense complications with the southern states. The first component of the Compromise of 1850 admitted California with its current boundaries as a free state in the Union, ending forever the old balance of free and slave states. The second component divided the remainder
