Beginning in 1850, the sectional differences between the North and the South continued to cause friction in the nation, which eventually led to the inevitable civil war. ... Slavery was a prominent topic debated during the years leading up to the Civil War and was one of the leading causes of division between the North and South. ... The issue of slavery was debated yet again after the Mexican War in regard to the newly acquired land in the West. The Compromise of 1850 was created to appease both regions; it stated that California was to enter the Union as a free state but that Utah and New M...

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Territorial Issues Before the onset of the American Civil War, a great debate was raging among the citizens, and politicians of the Untied States. ... The compromise admitted California as a free state, abolished slave trade in District of Columbia, imposed a new more stringent Fugitive Slave Law, invoked popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah, and finally settled the Texas-Mexico border dispute. ... It turned out to be the calm before the storm; which was to become the bloodiest war in world history: American Civil War...

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According to the compromise, Texas would relinquish the land in dispute but, in compensation, be given 10 million dollars; money it would use to pay off its debt to Mexico. Also, the territories of New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah would be organized without mention of slavery. ... While appearing to be sound, popular sovereignty provoked a mini civil war in Kansas, with abolitionists and slaveholders vying for control of the state and thus the decision whether to permit slavery. ...

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