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In addition to addressing the status of slavery in california, new mexico, and utah, what else was included in the compromise of 1850?

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Answer: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 slave-owners to recover runways under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

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