The Compromise of 1850 was largely responsible for the tensions that contributed to the start of the U.S. Civil War. This series of legislative measures aimed to address the territorial and slavery disputes arising from the Mexican-American War. It included provisions such as admitting California as a free state and implementing stricter fugitive slave laws, which heightened sectional conflict. While other compromises like the Great Compromise and the Three-Fifths Compromise played significant roles in earlier tensions over slavery, it was the Compromise of 1850 and subsequent events, like the Kansas-Nebraska Act, that escalated the divide leading to the Civil War.
Which compromise was largely responsible for the start of the U.S. Civil War?
Great Compromise
Three-Fifths Compromise
Compromise of 1850
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