Compromise of 1850
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Kaylee Hawkins
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After much debate, Congress worked out a solution called the Compromise of 1850.
In this agreement, California would be admitted into the U.S. as a free, or non-slave state.
The voters in the remaining territory of the Mexican Cession would be allowed to decide the issue of slavery for themselves.
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In 1852 Franklin Pierce was elected president of the United States.
The following year, he arranged to negotiate the purchase of a small section of Mexican land along the southern border of New Mexico and Arizona.
The United States planned to use the land for a railroad to the Pacific Ocean.
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Gadsden Purchase
James Gadsden, the US minister to Mexico, carried out the deal. The United States purchased this area that became known as the Gadsden Purchase.
The purchase finalized the boundary between the United States and the country of Mexico.
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