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William proviso

Did not want slavery. Make an amendment to a military appropriations that slavery will not exist which angered the north and south.secede

Secede

Withdrawal of a state from the union

Compromise of 1850

-made by Henry Clay


-intended to end controversy


California was emitted as a free state to the union. Also to satisfy the south they made the move effective fugitive slave law