During Millard Fillmore's presidency from 1850 to 1853, one significant piece of legislation was the Compromise of 1850, which aimed to ease tensions between slave and free states. This compromise included the controversial Fugitive Slave Act, which mandated that escaped slaves be returned to their owners, and admitted California as a free state. Fillmore supported the compromise as a means to maintain the Union, but it intensified the national debate over slavery. Additionally, he signed the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, aimed at regulating the interests of both the U.S. and Britain in Central America.
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