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Compromise of 1850 - An effect of the California gold rush was the Compromise of 1850. The increase in population in California, due to the gold rush, had allowed for the establishment of a state constitution, a governorship, and a legislature. These were all a part of the Compromise of 1850, officiating California as a US State. There were a total of five separate bills that were a part of the compromise. The document was drafted by Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky and pertained to the territories acquired during the Mexican-American War. The compromise surrendered Texas’ claim to New Mexico, along with its territory above the Missouri Compromise Line, admitted California as a free state, and prevented the passage of the Wilmot Proviso, which would have outlawed slavery in all territories acquired during the Mexican-American War. It also outlawed slave trade in the District of Columbia, but did not outlaw the entire institution of