Flashcard sets with a 'the compromise of 1850' term meaning 'was a series of bills aimed at resolving the territorial and slavery controversies arising from the mexican-american war; called for the admission of california as a free state, the organization of the territories of new mexico and utah with the slavery question left open (to popular sovereignty), settlement of the texas–new mexico boundary dispute'

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