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Compromise of 1850

Year
1850
Document Type
Ordinances

This document is from a series of Library of Congress guides to "Primary Documents in American History" and shows how the creation of the Territory of New Mexico (which included Arizona) was part of the Compromise of 1850 which was an attempt to maintain the balance between the free and slave states in the United States and avert a crisis between the North and South.