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How did the Compromise of 1850 impact the borders of the New Mexico territory?

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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 slaveowners to recover runways under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Here is a 10/10 explanation : It made it easier for slaveowners to recover runways in accepting California as a free state, forcing Utah and New Mexico to determine whether they wanted to be slave or free realms. This also formed a new Texas-New United states and made it easier for slaveowners to recover runways under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

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