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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.

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