Solving a border dispute between Texas and New Mexico was part of the what?

Solving a border dispute between Texas and New Mexico was part of the Compromise of 1850. This legislative package aimed to ease tensions between slave and free states following the Mexican-American War. It established the current boundaries between Texas and New Mexico, while also admitting California as a free state and allowing popular sovereignty in other territories. The compromise sought to maintain a delicate balance between slave and free states in the Union.