Of the various provisions of the Compromise of 1850, which one helped to turn many Northerners into abolitionists?
a. admission of California as a slave state
b. banning of the slave trade, but not slavery in the District of Columbia
c. allowing people in Utah and New Mexico to decide whether they wanted to be admitted as free or slave states
d. payment of $10 million to Texas in exchange for an end to its claim on parts of New Mexico
e. the Fugitive Slave Law
Ans: e. the Fugitive Slave Law
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