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How did the Compromise of 1850 affect slavery in California and the territories gained from Mexico?
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Which territories were open to slavery under the Compromise of 1850?
New Mexico and Utah
What evidence is there on the map to show a past Compromise of 1850?
The compromise of 1850, territories were opened to slavery. Utah and new Mexico
Was there slavery in Utah and New Mexico after Compromise of 1850?
Slavery would have been permitted in these territories. (Don't know if it happened.)
Was there slavery in the territories of the Mexican cession?
No - there was no slavery in the new territories - California or New Mexico or Utah. Texas was a slave state already.
Who drafted the compromise that established California as a free state and allowed the territories of Utah and New Mexico to decide the slavery issue popular sovereignty?
Henry Clay
Organized as territories under the compromise of 1850 with their decision about slavery left up to popular sovereignty?
Utah and New Mexico
Organized as territories under the compromise of 1850 with their decision on slavery left up to popular sovereignty?
Utah and New Mexico
What states did the Compromise of 1850 allow the people to decide whether or not they wanted slavery?
The Compromise of 1850 allowed California to be admitted to the Union as a free state on September 9, 1850. The Utah Territory and the New Mexico Territory were formed by the Compromise of 1850 and these two territories could permit or prohibit slavery as a local option (popular sovereignty).
What was the plan to ban slavery in territories gained from New Mexico?
In the Compromise of 1850, the Mexican Cession territory (excluding California) was to become New Mexico and Utah. Their slave situations were to be determined using popular sovereignty, or the power of the votes of the people to decide if it would be a slave state or not. In addition, the Compromise of 1850 also gave the disputed territory between Texas, a slave state, and New Mexico to New Mexico. This invalidated the previous compromise, the Missouri Compromise, which banned slavery in North of 36 in newly gained territory.
The two territories that were organized under the compromise of 1850 with the choice of slavery left open to popular sovereignty?
Utah and New Mexico
Bill that said slavery should be forbidden in all lands taken from Mexico?
The Compromise of 1850 said slavery should be forbidden in all lands taken from Mexico. The Compromise allowed California to be admitted as a free state into the Union.
What major issue was settled by the compromise os 1877?
It admitted California to the Union as a free state, and from the remaining land acquired in the Mexican War (1846-48), it established Utah and New Mexico as territories with an open status of slavery, a measure that overruled the Missouri Compromise.
