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Today in Washington D.C. the signing of the compromise of 1850. Henry Clay, the senator of Kentucky, was determined to make all of the Free states and the slave states equal. He needed many people to agree and he not only got many of the southern governors an example is Jefferson Davis being to agree with his decision he also got the president Zackary Taylor to agree with his decision. The goal was to get the northerners to not argue with the southerners about who get the states. They ended having California going to the north and Utah and New Mexico to the south. This allowed the south and north to maintain peace for the time being. Texas after winning the battle of the Alamo has been trying to become part of America. This compromise allowed us to gain Texas as a territory a third of the cost we would have had to pay if the compromise never happened. The date that this is being signed is now being signed on the date of March 7, 1850. Henry clayton has been trying to get this signed since 1848. The states were getting very mad and would have most likely gotten in a huge argument earlier because one of the sides north or south would have gotten mad because they didn’t get the states they wanted. When these three territories became states. Henry Clay solved the argument of these three territories becoming states and added a new territory to America.