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How did the compromise of 1850 attempt to settle conflicts that arose out of territorial expansion?.

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It admitted California as a free state, left Utah and New Mexico to decide for themselves whether to be a slave state or a free state, defined a new Texas-New Mexico boundary, and made it easier for slaveowners to recover runways under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

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