MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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Slavery would be banned in both California and Washington, D.C.; in exchange, the issue would be decided by popular sovereignty for any future states carved from the Mexican Cession and there would be a new federal fugitive slave law
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Slavery would be banned in all of the territory acquired in the Mexican Cession, but Texas would remain a slave state.
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Slavery would be permitted in California, but the issue would be decided by popular sovereignty for any future states carved from the Mexican Cession.
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Slavery would be permitted in all of the territory gained in the Mexican Cession, however Texas would become a free state.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-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: -In exchange, the south was guaranteed that no federal restrictions on slavery would be placed on Utah or New Mexico. Texas lost its boundary claims in New Mexico, but the Congress compensated Texas with $10 million. Slavery was maintained in the nation’s capital, but the slave trade was prohibited.