Question 5 • LHS Oklahoma History
The Compromise of 1850 included California’s admission to the Union as a free state. It also addressed disputes over slavery in other territories and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act. The nullification crisis occurred earlier, the Kansas-Nebraska Act organized those territories in 1854, and the ruling that African Americans could not be citizens was associated with the Dred Scott decision.
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