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How did the compromise of 1850 influence expansion

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It accepted California as a free state, left it up to Utah and New Mexico to determine whether they wanted to be slave or free states, established a new Texas-New Mexico border, and made it easier for slave owners to retrieve them under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

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