<Ul> <Li> Texas surrendered its claim to New Mexico as well as its claims north of 36 ° 30' . It retained the Texas Panhandle, and the federal government took over the state's public debt . </Li> <Li> California was admitted as a free state, with its current boundaries . </Li> <Li> The South prevented adoption of the Wilmot Proviso that would have outlawed slavery in the new territories, and the new Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory were allowed, under popular sovereignty, to decide whether to allow slavery in their borders . In practice, these lands were generally unsuited to plantation agriculture, and their settlers were uninterested in slavery . </Li> <Li> The slave trade, but not slavery altogether, was banned in the District of Columbia . </Li> <Li> A more stringent Fugitive Slave Law was enacted . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Texas surrendered its claim to New Mexico as well as its claims north of 36 ° 30' . It retained the Texas Panhandle, and the federal government took over the state's public debt . </Li> <Li> California was admitted as a free state, with its current boundaries . </Li> <Li> The South prevented adoption of the Wilmot Proviso that would have outlawed slavery in the new territories, and the new Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory were allowed, under popular sovereignty, to decide whether to allow slavery in their borders . In practice, these lands were generally unsuited to plantation agriculture, and their settlers were uninterested in slavery . </Li>

In the compromise of 1850 congress balanced the interests of the two sections by