Map: The Compromise of 1850

-Which of the following was a significant cause of the political boundaries depicted in the map?

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Map: The Compromise of 1850
 
-Which of the following was a significant cause of the political boundaries depicted in the map?

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The Compromise of 1850 was a series of laws that were passed to deal with the issue of slavery and its extension into the newly acquired territories after the Mexican-American War. The controversy surrounding the status of slavery in the Mexican Cession territories was a significant cause of the political boundaries depicted in the map. The compromise allowed for popular sovereignty in those territories, meaning that the citizens of those territories would decide whether to allow slavery or not. This led to the creation of new states with different stances on slavery, which is reflected in the map.

Map: the Compromise of 1850