The problem was complicated by the unresolved question of slavery's extension into other areas ceded by Mexico the preceding year.
Step-by-step explanation:
Through the Compromise, California was declared a state and admitted to the Union as a free state. The problem was further complicated by the unsettled question of slavery's extension into other areas ceded by Mexico in the previous year.
The slave trade was banned in Washington, D.C., a strict new Fugitive Slave Act forced citizens of Free states to help in capturing enslaved people. And the new territories of Utah and New Mexico would permit white residents to decide about slavery. The "Compromise of 1850" upturned the "Missouri Compromise" and left back the whole problem of slavery unsettled.