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Match the compromises and acts with their primary purpose in addressing tensions between the North and South.

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Compromise of 1850
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Fugitive Slave Act
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Missouri Compromise
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Answer 1

Compromise of 1850 — A package of measures to defuse the sectional crisis: admit California as a free state, use popular sovereignty in new territories, end slave trade in DC, and strengthen the fugitive slave law to preserve the Union.

Fugitive Slave Act — Federal law forcing Northerners to return escaped enslaved people and penalizing those who aided runaways; designed to protect Southern slaveholders’ rights.

Missouri Compromise — Kept Senate balance by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state and prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of 36°30'.