Although California would be admitted to the Union as a free state, the Compromise of 1850 would also require that:
a. the slavery question in the new territories be left to popular sovereignty.
b. Arizona be admitted as a slave state.
c. a transcontinental railroad take a southern route.
d. a federal head tax be levied on every slave.
ANSWER: a
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