What was the name of the five measures proposed to maintain a balance between free and slave states in 1850?

The five measures proposed to maintain a balance between free and slave states in 1850 are collectively known as the Compromise of 1850. This series of legislative acts aimed to address the tensions that arose from the territories gained after the Mexican-American War and how they would enter the Union—whether as free or slave states.

The Compromise included key provisions such as the admission of California as a free state, the establishment of territorial governments in New Mexico and Utah without restrictions on slavery (popular sovereignty), the resolution of the Texas boundary dispute, the abolition of the slave trade (but not slavery itself) in Washington D.C., and the implementation of a stronger Fugitive Slave Law. Each of these measures was designed to appease both pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions, reflecting the significant conflict over the expansion of slavery in the United States at that time.

In contrast, the Missouri Compromise was an earlier effort from 1820 to address similar issues but did not include the context of the new territories from the Mexican-American War. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, which came later in 1854, turned the focus back to popular sovereignty and led to significant violence in "Bleeding Kansas." The Nullification Crisis was focused on states'