MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
COMPROMISE OF 1850
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Missouri would be allowed to join the United States as a slave state
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slavery would be illegal in any state north of the Mississippi River
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settlers in the New Mexico and Utah territories would be allowed to vote on whether slavery would be legal in the territories
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new states would be admitted to the United States until there was an equal number of slave and free states
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. Furthermore, California entered the Union as a free state and a territorial government was created in Utah.
Detailed explanation-3: -Compromise of 1850, in U.S. history, a series of measures proposed by the “great compromiser, ” Sen. Henry Clay of Kentucky, and passed by the U.S. Congress in an effort to settle several outstanding slavery issues and to avert the threat of dissolution of the Union.