What does the Compromise of 1850 refer to?
A. a resolved slave dispute in Mexico
B. gold rush laws
C.the elimination of slavery in Washington, D.C.
D. the admittance of California to the union as a free state
The Compromise of 1850 is a set of five bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused the political confrontation between the slave states and the free states.
