<P> On January 29, 1850, Whig Senator Henry Clay gave a speech for compromise on the issues dividing the Union . However, Clay's specific proposals for achieving a compromise, including his idea for Texas's boundary, were not adopted in a single bill . Upon Clay's urging, Senator Stephen A. Douglas, Democrat of Illinois, divided Clay's bill into several smaller bills and passed each separately . When he instructed Douglas, Clay was nearly dead and unable to guide the congressional debate any further . The Compromise came to coalesce around a plan dividing Texas at its present - day boundaries, creating territorial governments with "popular sovereignty", without the Wilmot Proviso, for New Mexico and Utah, admitting California as a free state, abolishing the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and enacting a new fugitive slave law . </P> <P> The Compromise of 1850 was formally proposed by Clay and guided to passage by Douglas over Northern Whig and Southern Democrat opposition . It was enacted September 1850 with the following terms: </P> <Ol> <Li> California admitted as a free state . </Li> <Li> Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory organized with slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty . </Li> <Li> Texas dropped its claim to land north of the 32nd parallel north and west of the 103rd meridian west in favor of New Mexico Territory, and north of the 36 ° 30' parallel north and east of the 103rd meridian west which became unorganized territory . Texas's boundaries were set at their present form . Senator James Pearce of Maryland drafted the final proposal in which Texas ceded its claims to land which later became half of present - day New Mexico, a third of Colorado, and small portions of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Wyoming to the federal government, in return for the assumption of $10 million of the old republic's debt . El Paso, where Texas had established county government, was left in Texas . </Li> <Li> Slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia but not slavery itself . </Li> <Li> The Fugitive Slave Act was strengthened . </Li> </Ol> <Li> California admitted as a free state . </Li>

Which of the following were some of the key elements of the compromise of 1850
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