<u>The Compromise of 1850 resolved the issue of slavery in Utah and New Mexico throug</u>h popular sovereignty. The new Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory were allowed, under popular sovereignty, to decide whether to allow slavery within their borders.
<em>The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War. It was passed by the United States Congress.</em>
