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3. Texas could give up land east of the upper Rio Grande River. In turn, the federal governmet would pay Texas' debts.
4. Slave trade, but not slavery, would end in the nation's capital.
5. A more effective fugitive slave law would be passed.
Missouri Compromise of 1820 banned slavery north of latitude 36 30' N. Latitude.
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Antislavery literature and the annexation of new lands intensified the debate over slavery.
Southerners did not want California to be a free state because it would upset the balance of power between slave and free states.
Written by Henry Clay
1. CA would enter Union as a Free state.
2. the rest of the Mexican Cession would be federal land.