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-Laws meant to resolve the dispute over the spread of slavery in the territories. Key elements included the admission of California as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Act.

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The Compromise of 1850 was passed in an attempt to find a solution to the issue of slavery in the territories, which was causing tension between the North and South. It included the admission of California as a free state, which angered the South, and the Fugitive Slave Act, which angered the North.

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