What Part of the Compromise of 1850 Increased Sectional Controversy

question 49

Multiple Choice

What part of the Compromise of 1850 increased sectional controversy and conflict during the 1850s?

• A) The admission of California as a free state
• B) The settlement of the Texas boundary question
• C) The ending of the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
• D) The Fugitive Slave Act

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