The Compromise of 1850 established all the following terms EXCEPT?

a. California admitted as a free state








b. New and more effective fugitive slave law








c. No slavery in territories acquired from Mexico








d. Pay Texas $10 million to surrender its claim to New Mexico

The Compromise of 1850 established all the following terms EXCEPT?
c. The territory of New Mexico (including present-day Arizona and a portion of southern Nevada) was organized without any specific prohibition of slavery
Reply:c


Some of the territory acquired from Mexico, including Arizona and southern Nevada, were organized as territories specifically without a prohibition of slavery. Therefore C is most definitely untrue.


The other 3 choices are a part of the Compromise.
Reply:The answer is C.





California was admitted as a free state; Texas received financial compensation for relinquishing claim to lands west of the Rio Grande in what is now New Mexico; the territory of New Mexico (including present-day Arizona and a portion of southern Nevada) was organized without any specific prohibition of slavery; the slave trade (but not slavery itself) was abolished in Washington, D.C.; and the stringent Fugitive Slave Law was passed, requiring all U.S. citizens to assist in the return of runaway slaves regardless of the legality of slavery in the specific states.





The Fugitive Slave Act was a result of the Mexican-American War to settle turmoil that arose from other decisions made concerning the issues that surfaced from the victory. As a consequence of the Mexican War, the balance in the country between slavery and antislavery territories was briefly upset. The decision to make newly-acquired California a free state, as well as the other provisions after the war that opposed slavery, caused this disturbance. After the United States won California in the Mexican War, a decision had to be made about whether it should become a slave or free state. After it was proclaimed free, pro-slavery Americans were angered by this shift in the balance of power towards free states and threatened secession. The Fugitive Slave Act was strengthened to prevent further turmoil. First enacted in 1793, the bolstered Act aided slaveholders by mandating that all escaped slaves must be returned to their masters, and - more crucially for the impending war - that ordinary citizens were required to aid slavecatchers. Many northern citizens deeply resented this pressure; but in serving their duties, they saw many scenes of such tragedy that former slavery fence-sitters landed squarely on the side of the abolitionists. This renewed act did help appease the Southern states and their contingent slaveowners by assuring the return of the slaves they considered property. However, once the secession threat was quieted, resentment towards this act continued to heighten tensions between the North and South, being thoroughly despised by the former. This Fugitive Slave Act is seen as one of the key steps towards civil war. It was included partly because of the public reaction to the Pearl incident.
Reply:C-the slavery issue was left to popular sovereignty so citizens voted and chose