... several politicians had opted for maintaining the Union united, as shows Connor and Faulk, Clay called for compromise in a speech on January 29, 1850. California would enter as a free state; New Mexico would be given separate territorial status; Texas would be paid $10.000.000 for ceding its claim ... Civil War begun. Until 1863 there existed equilibrium between the Union and the Confederate forces, but Abraham Lincoln wrote a proclamation that named all slaves free. Thus, as the Union advanced into the Confederacy, slaves gained freedom. Since the beginning of the war, both sides had be...

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