After the war with mexico, the territorial status was defined as the following.
a.
if admitted as states to the union they had to be free of slavery.
c.
popular will could decide the status of the utah and new mexico territory.
b.
if admitted as states to the union they had to be slave states.
d.
none of the territories applied for statehood.

Plyler v. doe did the following except: established that u.s. citizen children whose parents have been deported may petition to bring the parents back into the country. established that children regardless of immigration status may not be denied a public school education. resulted in the texas law being struck down because it was a state law rather than a federal law. gave children a form of heightened scrutiny even though it has not changed the constitutional review of most classifications.