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What were the effects of the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 on New Mexico?

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It allowed California to enter the Union as a free state. It divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into the territories of New Mexico and Utah. It ended the slave trade in Washington, D.C. It included a strict fugitive slave law.
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