Under the Compromise of 1850, how was the issue of slavery to be decided in the Utah and New Mexico territories?
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Correct answer: By the principle of popular sovereignty
Popular sovereignty allowed the actual settlers in these territories to vote on whether to allow slavery. This was a move away from the fixed geographical lines of the Missouri Compromise.
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