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It consisted of laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty, settling a Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute in the former's favor, ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and making it easier for southerners to recover fugitive slaves.
The Compromise of 1850 was a group of five laws passed in 1850 dealing with the issue of slavery.
The correct answer would be: "It was used to admit California into the union". California entered the Union as a free state.
They made the slave trade in Washington D.C. illegal, and the Fugitive Slave act was amended.