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The Compromise of 1850 allowed the territories of New Mexico and Utah to decide whether they wanted slavery through the principle of popular sovereignty. This meant that the settlers in those territories would vote on whether to permit slavery, rather than having Congress make that decision for them. The compromise aimed to ease tensions between free and slave states following the Mexican-American War.
People in Utah and New Mexico got to vote to decide if they wanted to be a slave or free state.
People in Utah and New Mexico got to vote to decide if they wanted to be a slave or free state.
No. It was a compromise in the Congress to work out problems between some states as to which side they were on. People could not decide on their own to own slaves. Some people in the South didn't want slavery.
The Compromise of 1850 did not allow any choice in the matter. It reflected the increasing difficulty of creating new slave-states. It was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 that allowed the people of those two territories to vote on the slavery question. The only time it was tried (in Kansas), it led to terrible bloodshed, and was not tried again. The result was that Kansas rejected 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).
Because the north and the south wanted differnt things south wanted slavery, but the north wanted freedom.
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The Missouri Compromise was a temporary band aid on the problem of slavery. Many in the South wanted slavery and many in the North did not. It made more people unhappy.
The Compromise of 1850 allowed the territories of New Mexico and Utah to decide for themselves whether to permit slavery through the principle of popular sovereignty. This effectively meant that the settlers in those territories could vote on the legality of slavery, rather than having it imposed by Congress. This compromise aimed to ease tensions between free and slave states but ultimately contributed to the sectional conflicts leading up to the Civil War.