The Compromise of 1850 sought to settle disputes between north and south after the US acquired new territories in the Mexican-American War. It admitted California into the Union as a free state but also included a strict Fugitive Slave Law. What was the reaction to this compromise (Choice A, Checked)
A
The angry reactions on both the northern and southern sides led to even more division in the US and continued to set the stage for the Civil War.

(Choice B)
B
Southern slaveholders were more outraged about the the Compromise, while people in the north did not find it objectionable.

(Choice C)
C
The Compromise eased tensions between the North and South and led to a brief period of harmony before the Kansas-Nebraska Act.