The Compromise of 1850 was successful in the sense that it solved some impending crises, thus delayed the outbreak of war. On the surface, the admission of California was the incident that sparked the conflict. Admitting California as a free state would destroy the delicate sectional balance that was crucial to the South. The compromise solved this problem by allowing California to come into the Union as a free state, but the people of New Mexico and Utah would have the right to decide by popular sovereignty whether they would be free or slave. Since this idea seemed to go along with democratic idealism, people were able to accept it. The compromise also solved some other problems. Texas was paid $10 million for giving up its claim to part of the New Mexico territory. Slave trade, but not slavery was abolished in District of Columbia. These solutions, although were unpleasant to both sectio

No doubt that the compromise of 1850 delayed the outbreak of civil war and held the union together for ten more years. It successfully solved some immediate problems such as the admission of California as a free state and settled the dispute in Texas. It also indirectly saved the Union by delaying the war until the North was strong enough to fight. But it failed to settle the slave issue once and for all as it was expected to do. In fact, nothing could prevent the war because the Union "could not endure permanently half slave and half free."

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Although the compromise delayed the war, it did not prevent the war. At first glance, the compromise seemed have settled everything concerning the expansion of slavery, but it actually settled nothing. It merely put off the problem to a later time. Whether slavery should be allowed in the area gained in the Mexican War was still unanswered. The South and the North would continue fighting over unorganized territories. In fact, since the government decided not to intervene in the slavery issue, the people had to decided whether they want slavery or not. When they couldn't decide for themselves, they turned to violence. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was said to be a logical extension of the Compromise of 1

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