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The compromise gave each section what appeared to be a temporary advantage, and provided the nation with a politically acceptable, if temporary, solution to the dangerously divisive issue of slavery in the new territories of the West. In the long run, however, the Compromise of 1850 really accomplished very little, except to frustrate everyone and whet appetites for another confrontation — with the intention to settle old political scores and win a decisive victory to settle the question of the future of the United States once and for all.