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How did the Mexican-American war affect the Missouri Compromise?
When claiming statehood, the territories in the southwest gained through the war claimed lands on both sides of Missouri's border which caused unbalance between free and slaveholding states. The territories gained through the Mexican-American war increased the population in Missouri, and the population reduction reached during the earlier compromise was no longer needed or wanted. Almost half of the territories gained during the war were Canadian territories, which resumed the arguments in Congress about which territories sho

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@paki

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"When the Mexican-American War ended, the United States received the Mexican Cession which included all of California, Nevada and Utah, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. With this huge land acquisition, the issue of slavery in the new territories was raised. This led directly to the Compromise of 1850. This compromise deepened the division between the North and the South. First, California would be admitted to the Union as a free state, which upset the South. Two new territories would be established, Utah and New Mexico. These territories would be open to slavery through popular sovereignty, that is, the people of the territories would decide the issue of slavery. This upset the people in the North because so much territory could now have slavery. The slave trade was banned in the District of Columbia which upset the South because they saw this as a first step towards abolishing slavery. There would be a new, strict, fugitive slave law which upset the North because now by law they had to assist in returning slaves to their owners. These tensions created by the Compromise of 1850, which was passed because of the results of the Mexican-American War, helped create the conditions for the Civil War."