The territory of Desseret, the center of which and eventual state it became is Utah. Parts of it were whittled away by congress and became California, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, and Montana.
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The acquisition of vast new territories from Mexico. The South wanted to spread slavery into these new territories. But it was getting harder to create new slave-states, and Congress had to make a big gesture of appeasement to the South in the form of the Fugitive Slave Act.
The northwest ordinance included a bill of rights for the settlers, guaranteeing freedom of religion and trial by jury. It had an enormous effect on American expansion and the development and it opend the way for settlement of the northwest territory in a stable and orderly manner.
The national government wasn't sure whether to make the new territories "slavery-free" states or slave states.
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