The Provisions of the Compromise of 1850

question 26

Multiple Choice

The provisions of the Compromise of 1850

• A) left unresolved the status of territories in the Mexican cession.
• B) allowed for lax enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act.
• C) established one of the largest slave markets in the nation's capital.
• D) ended the balance between free and slave states in the Union.

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Depression

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