The Compromise of 1850
- A
Triggered the immediate secession of South Carolina, the firing on Fort Sumter, and the formal outbreak of the Civil War
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Admitted California as a free state, allowed popular sovereignty in NM/UT, ended slave trade in DC, and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act
- C
Created the Confederate States of America as a separate slaveholding republic and partitioned California into two slave territories
- D
Abolished slavery in all states and territories, repealed the Fugitive Slave Act, and granted full citizenship to free Blacks
Explanation
Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas crafted the package; postponed civil war for a decade.