<Li> First draft of the compromise of 1850: Texas's northwestern boundary would be a straight diagonal line from the Rio Grande 20 miles (30 km) north of El Paso to the Red River of the South at the 100th meridian west (the southwestern corner of today's Oklahoma). </Li> <Ul> <Li> The Compromise of 1850, proposed by Henry Clay in January 1850, guided to passage by Douglas over Northern Whig and Southern Democrat opposition, and enacted September 1850, admitted California as a free state including Southern California and organized Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory with slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty . Texas dropped its claim to the disputed northwestern areas in return for debt relief, and the areas were divided between the two new territories and unorganized territory . El Paso where Texas had successfully established county government was left in Texas . No southern territory dominated by Southerners (like the later short - lived Confederate Territory of Arizona) was created . Also, the slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C. (but not slavery itself), and the Fugitive Slave Act was strengthened . </Li> </Ul> <Li> The Compromise of 1850, proposed by Henry Clay in January 1850, guided to passage by Douglas over Northern Whig and Southern Democrat opposition, and enacted September 1850, admitted California as a free state including Southern California and organized Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory with slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty . Texas dropped its claim to the disputed northwestern areas in return for debt relief, and the areas were divided between the two new territories and unorganized territory . El Paso where Texas had successfully established county government was left in Texas . No southern territory dominated by Southerners (like the later short - lived Confederate Territory of Arizona) was created . Also, the slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C. (but not slavery itself), and the Fugitive Slave Act was strengthened . </Li> <P> It quickly became apparent that the Mexican Cession did not include a feasible route for a transcontinental railroad connecting to a southern port . The topography of the New Mexico Territory included mountains that naturally directed any railroad extending from the southern Pacific coast northward, to Kansas City, St. Louis, or Chicago . Southerners, anxious for the business such a railroad would bring (and hoping to establish a slave - state beachhead on the Pacific coast), agitated for the acquisition of railroad - friendly land at the expense of Mexico, thus bringing about the Gadsden Purchase of 1853 . </P>

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