Which of the following statements was NOT a result of the Compromise of 1850?

• A. California Admitted Into the Union as a Free State
• B. The Slave Trade Was Abolished in the Capital
• C. The Fugitive Slave Act Was Enacted
• D. Slavery Was Banned in All New Territories Created From the Mexican Cession

Answer: (D)

The event tests how the Compromise of 1850 tried to balance free and slave interests in new territories and in the capital. The Compromise did several things: California joined as a free state; the slave trade was ended in Washington, D.C.; a stricter Fugitive Slave Act was enacted to capture escaped enslaved people; and the remaining Mexican Cession lands were organized into new territories (Utah and New Mexico) with the question of slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty. There wasn’t a blanket ban on slavery in all the new territories created from the Mexican Cession; instead, residents would vote to determine whether slavery would exist there.

So, the statement claiming that slavery was banned in all new territories from the Mexican Cession is not a result of the Compromise.