<span> It consisted of laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty, settling a Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute in the former's favor, ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and making it easier for southerners to recover fugitive slaves.</span>
Some reasons were because of political, religious,economical,exploratory,medical,scientific,aggressive or ethnocentric reasonings.
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In 1950 there were only four independent countries on the continent: Egypt, South Africa, Ethiopia, and Liberia.
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