How does the moderator use questions to structure each debate?

Moderators Have Topics They will move on to  different topics after the ones that were asked were answered. They have Talk time which is usually 2 minutes, But they also have time where the two candidates speak freely and argue/talk.

the compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the united states congress in september 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the mexican–american war