Which of the following was a key provision of the Compromise of 1850?

a) California entered the Union as a free state.
b) The Fugitive Slave Act was repealed.
c) Utah entered the Union as a free state.
d) The internal slave trade was abolished in the Lower South.


Answer: a

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