The question of how slavery would be managed in the new U.S. territory acquired through the Mexican Cession was addressed through the Compromise of 1850, which temporarily settled the issue but contributed to tensions between free states in the North and slaveholding states in the South that would eventually culminate in the American Civil War.
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