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b) The Fugitive Slave Act was repealed.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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What were Luddites?
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The first transatlantic submarine cable was laid in ________
A. 1850 B. 1866 C. 1872 D. 1900
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