The deal was to allow California to join the union as free soil, in exchange for Congress agreeing to toughen-up the Fugitive Slave Act, with official slave-catchers hunting down runaways. This aroused the growing Abolitionist lobby, and led to the publication of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.
South ofthat line, slavery was allowed. But it only applied to the territories acquired from France in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. When the USA acquired vast new lands from Mexico in 1847, a new compromise had to be worked out, in view of the Wilmot Proviso, which declared that no slavery should be allowed in any of these new territories.
The Compromise of 1850 addressed the status of territories acquired from Mexico after the U.S.-Mexican War, particularly California, New Mexico, and Utah. It allowed California to enter the Union as a free state while organizing New Mexico and Utah as territories where the decision on slavery would be determined by popular sovereignty. This compromise aimed to balance the interests of slave and free states, but ultimately intensified sectional tensions over slavery and contributed to the conflicts leading up to the Civil War.
No - there was no slavery in the new territories - California or New Mexico or Utah. Texas was a slave state already.
Slavery in gained territories.
North and South disagreed anyway about extending slavery into the West. The Missouri Compromise (1820)drew a line in the sand - anywhere North of that line, slavery would be illegal. It kept the peace for thirty years.
New Mexico and Utah
Slavery would have been permitted in these territories. (Don't know if it happened.)
Utah and New Mexico
Utah and New Mexico
Utah and New Mexico
The issue of slavery in the territory ceded by Mexico was decided by the Compromise of 1850, which allowed residents to determine whether to allow slavery through popular sovereignty. This meant that the territories of New Mexico and California could decide on the slavery issue for themselves when applying for statehood.
Slavery would be legal there. But this did not apply to the new territories that were later acquired from Mexico.
South ofthat line, slavery was allowed. But it only applied to the territories acquired from France in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. When the USA acquired vast new lands from Mexico in 1847, a new compromise had to be worked out, in view of the Wilmot Proviso, which declared that no slavery should be allowed in any of these new territories.
The compromise of 1850, territories were opened to slavery. Utah and new Mexico
The Compromise of 1850 included several measures regarding slavery, specifically prohibiting slavery in the newly acquired territories of California and New Mexico. California was admitted as a free state, while the status of slavery in New Mexico and Utah was to be determined by popular sovereignty. Additionally, the compromise strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act, which required the return of escaped slaves to their owners. Overall, the compromise aimed to balance the interests of slave and free states amidst rising tensions over 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 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.