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What determined the status of slavery in territories in the 1850s?
Under the 1850 Compromise, New Mexico and Utah were allowed in as slave-states, in exchange for California as free soil. After that, Kansas and Nebraska were to be admitted on a local vote on slavery ('Popular Sovereignty'). This resulted in bloodshed that foreshadowed the Civil War.
Which territories were able to choose by popular sovereignty whether or not to allow slavery?
New Mexico and Utah
Which state entered the union following the compromise of 1850?
Minnesota (1858), Oregon (1859), Kansas (1861), West Virginia (1863), Nevada (1864), Nebraska (1867), Colorado (1876), North Dakota (1889), South Dakota (1889), Montana (1889), Washington (1889), Idaho (1890), Wyoming (1890), Utah (1896), Oklahoma (1907), New Mexico (1912), Arizona (1912), Alaska (1959), and Hawaii (1959) joined the union after 1850.
What were the major parts of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act served to negate the principles laid down in the Missouri Compromise of 1820. It allowed the residents of Kansas and Nebraska to vote on whether to be free or slave states.
What was the problematic aspect of the Compromise of 1850?
Texas would relinquish the land it was arguing with Mexico over but would receive ten million dollars in compensation (which it would use to pay off its debts to Mexico); the slave trade would be abolished in Washington, D.C., though slavery itself was still permitted; California was admitted as a free state; and the Fugitive Slave Act, which punished people harboring fugitive slaves and allowed for the return of those slaves to their masters was passed.
Where did the Compromise Of 1850 Decided Whether They Wanted Slavery?
utah and mexico
Which territories were open to slavery under the Compromise of 1850?
New Mexico and Utah
The compromise of 1850 allowed people in where to decide weather they wanted slavery?
Utah and New Mexico
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
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
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).
Which allowed California to enter the union as afree state while the question of slavery in Utah and New Mexico would be decided by?
The Compromise of 1850
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
What was part of the Compromise of 1850?
A provision creating Utah and New Mexico
Was part of the compromise of 1850?
A provision creating Utah and New Mexico
What is the exact date of the compromise of 1850?
The compromise of 1850 was a result of the country beginning its fight over slavery. It also admitted California into statehood and created the land that would eventually become New Mexico and Utah. The compromise was signed on September 18th.
