Question 8 • LPS US History I (CR) - MP2
The Compromise of 1850 included a ban on the slave trade in Washington, D.C., though slavery itself remained legal there. It also admitted California as a free state and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act, so choices A and D are incorrect. Texas gave up its claim to disputed land rather than adding that land to California.
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