History
History in 1850
- The population count for the United States Census of 1850 was 23,191,876, a 35.9% increase from a decade before.
- The debate on the future of slavery in the territories escalated when Henry Clay introduced the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
- Millard Fillmore was sworn into office as the 13th President of the United States.
- The Compromise of 1850, admitted California as the 31st state.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter.
- Plains Indians ceded land in exchange for reservations.
- Utah and New Mexico were made territories.
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