<Li> California admitted as a free state . </Li> <Li> Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory organized with slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty . </Li> <Li> Texas dropped its claim to land north of the 32nd parallel north and west of the 103rd meridian west in favor of New Mexico Territory, and north of the 36 ° 30' parallel north and east of the 103rd meridian west which became unorganized territory . Texas's boundaries were set at their present form . Senator James Pearce of Maryland drafted the final proposal in which Texas ceded its claims to land which later became half of present - day New Mexico, a third of Colorado, and small portions of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Wyoming to the federal government, in return for the assumption of $10 million of the old republic's debt . El Paso, where Texas had established county government, was left in Texas . </Li> <Li> Slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia but not slavery itself . </Li>

What were the five major provisions of the compromise of 1850