What crisis did the Compromise of 1850 attempt to avert?
Secession crisis
Sectional crisis
Financial crisis
War with Mexico
Answer
The Compromise of 1850 was an attempt to avert a sectional crisis in the United States by addressing the issue of slavery in the territories. The compromise included the admission of California as a free state, the passage of a new fugitive slave law, the creation of the Utah and New Mexico territories, and the settlement of the Texas boundary dispute.
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