The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a free state. What major concession was given to the South in exchange?

The creation of two new slave states.

A strict law for the return of escaped slaves.

The promise that all future territories would allow slavery.

The expansion of slavery into Washington, D.C.

Which part of the Compromise of 1850 was considered a significant victory for pro-slavery interests in the South?

The admission of California to the Union as a free state.

The ban on the buying and selling of slaves in Washington, D.C.

The passage of the stringent new Fugitive Slave Act.

The decision to allow popular sovereignty in Utah.

To end slavery in all territories acquired from Mexico.

To prevent the southern states from leaving the Union over the slavery debate.

To finalize the border between Texas and Mexico after the war.

To make it illegal to buy or sell enslaved people in the nation's capital.

They had to pay a tax to support slaveholders.

They were required to help authorities capture and return people who had escaped slavery.

They had to vote on whether their own state would continue to be a free state.

They were forbidden from speaking out against the practice of slavery in public.

It settled the slavery question permanently and created lasting harmony.

It only delayed a larger national conflict rather than providing a true solution.

It led directly to the southern states seceding from the Union.

It significantly weakened the abolitionist movement in the North.