MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
COMPROMISE OF 1850
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New Mexico, Kansas, Wyoming, and Colorado
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New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah
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New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, and Colorado
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New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Nevada
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Compromise of 1850 had several parts. They included California being admitted as a free state and the borders of Texas being settled, with areas ceded by Texas becoming the recognized territories of New Mexico and Utah.
Detailed explanation-2: -Under the compromise, Texas surrendered its claims to present-day New Mexico and other states in return for federal assumption of Texas’s public debt. California was admitted as a free state, while the remaining portions of the Mexican Cession were organized into New Mexico Territory and Utah Territory.
Detailed explanation-3: -The acts called for the admission of California as a “free state, ” provided for a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico, established a boundary between Texas and the United States, called for the abolition of slave trade in Washington, DC, and amended the Fugitive Slave Act.
Detailed explanation-4: -Texas relinquished 67 million acres in the Compromise of 1850 in exchange for a cash payment that wiped out the debt. Future land sales were earmarked to fund Texas education.