What was a purpose of the Compromise of 1850?

The Compromise of 1850 was a package of laws intended to ease conflict between free and slave states. One of its key provisions admitted California to the Union as a free state, so D is correct. The compromise strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act and ended the slave trade—not slavery itself—in Washington, DC; popular sovereignty in Kansas came later.

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