| The Compromise of 1850 | | Divided the Mexican cession in two, Mexico and Utah. |
| Wilmot Proviso (not passed) | | Required that if any new states were formed out of Texas’ lands, those north of the Missouri Compromise line would become free states. |
| Banned in Washington DC | | Admitted a free state with its current boundaries. |
| Zachary Taylor | | A package of five separate bills that reduced sectional conflict. |
| Texas | | Slave state. |
| California | | Settled border dispute between Texas and New Mexico. |
| Texas Annexation Resolution | | Outlawed slavery in the new territories. |
| 1st Component | | Fugitive slave act was published. |
| 2nd Component | | Slaveowner, who had favored excluding slavery from the southwest. |
| 3rd Component | | California was admitted as a free state. |
| 4th Component | | The slave trade |
| 5th Component | | Senator at the time. |
| John Bell | | Ended slave trade in Washington. |