<span>California would be admitted as a free state.The remainder of the Mexican cession would be divided
into two separate territories, New Mexico and Utah, and these territories
would decide by popular sovereignty whether to be slave-holding
or free.Texas would cede its claim to parts of the New Mexico
territory, and, in exchange, the government would cover Texas’s
$10 million war debt. The slave trade would be abolished in the District of
Columbia, but slavery itself would continue.<span>Congress would strengthen the Fugitive Slave Act by
requiring citizens of any state, slave or free, to assist in the
capture and return of runaway slaves. </span></span>
California was admitted a free state. The North had better transportation and the economy was rising from the transportation. The South like slavery. As a matter of fact, they loved it. They needed it for agriculture. The North wanted to abolish it and they eventually did after Robert E. Lee surrendered to President Abraham Lincoln ending the Civil War. I hope this helps you!
The Mexican Cession (Spanish: Cesión mexicana) is the region in the modern-day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 after the Mexican–American War
