Read each of the original eight sections that composed the Compromise of 1850. Next to the section, indicate what part(s) of the United States (North, South, or both equally) the section is primarily catering toward politically.

1)Admitting California to the United States as a free state. ________

2)Organize the territories of New Mexico and Utah (gained in the Mexican American War) without restriction on slavery, allowing the residents to decide the issue themselves in a vote when they have a large enough population to apply for statehood. ________

3)Deny Texas its claim to expansion into New Mexican territory ________

4)Compensate Texas for not gaining more land by having the federal government pay the pre-annexation Texas debts from when it was a poor independent country ________

5)Uphold slavery as legal in the District of Columbia (Washington D.C.) ________

6)Abolish the slave trade across the boundary of Washington D.C. ending slave auctions in the region. _______

7)Adopt an effective Federal Fugitive Slave Act that would make it legal for slave catchers to pursue runaway slaves even in free territory and make it a crime to aid runaway slaves. _______

8)Deny congressional authority to interfere with the interstate slave trade ________

9)Overall. What section of the country stood to gain most from the Compromise of 1850?
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