What territory besides Kansas had applied for statehood in the 1850s? Alabama
Missouri
Nebraska
Maine

Nebraska

After Taylor died and was succeeded by Fillmore, Douglas took the lead in passing Clay's compromise through Congress as five separate bills . Under the compromise texas surrended it claims to present New Mexico and other state in return for federal assumption of Texas's public debt. California was admitted as a free state while the remaining portions of the Mexican cession were organized into new Mexico territory and Utah territory under the concept of popular Sovereignty,the people of each territory would decide whether or not slavery would be permitted. the compromise also include more stringent fugutive slave law and banned the slave trades in Washington, D.C. the issue of slavery in the territo

ries would be re-open by the Kansas- Nebraska Act, but many historians argue that the compromise of 1850 played a major role in postponing the American Civil War

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