Slavery+Issues+By+Brooke

=**__Slavery Issues __** = = =   The slavery issue first arose within one year of President Taylor's inauguration. During this time the union had 15 free states and 15 slave states and if California tipped this balance then the slave states would become the minority. In time, Henry Clay proposed that Congress wouldn't be able to control slave trade. His proposal triggered a debate with the Congress which then resulted in the Compromise of 1850.