USA HISTORY

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: -It admitted California as a free state, left Utah and New Mexico to decide for themselves whether to be a slave state or a free state, defined a new Texas-New Mexico boundary, and made it easier for slaveowners to recover runways under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

Detailed explanation-3: -After months of debate, the Missouri Compromise saved the day: Missouri would be admitted as a slave state, and a new state-Maine-would be created as a free state. To avoid future problems, they also mapped out which parts of the rest of America’s territory could become slave and free states.