USA HISTORY

MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855

COMPROMISE OF 1850

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the Compromise of 1850?
A
a list of women’s rights
B
the abolishment of slavery
C
reduction the tariffs over 10 years
D
California to enter the U.S. as a free state & passing a Fugitive Slave Law
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The acts called for the admission of California as a “free state, ” provided for a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico, established a boundary between Texas and the United States, called for the abolition of slave trade in Washington, DC, and amended the Fugitive Slave Act.

Detailed explanation-2: -As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. Furthermore, California entered the Union as a free state and a territorial government was created in Utah.

Detailed explanation-3: -It admitted California as a free state, left Utah and New Mexico to decide for themselves whether to be a slave state or a free state, defined a new Texas-New Mexico boundary, and made it easier for slaveowners to recover runways under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

Detailed explanation-4: -Compromise of 1850, in U.S. history, a series of measures proposed by the “great compromiser, ” Sen. Henry Clay of Kentucky, and passed by the U.S. Congress in an effort to settle several outstanding slavery issues and to avert the threat of dissolution of the Union.

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