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Which best summarizes the goal of the Compromise of 1850?

a. to resolve the issue of whether slavery should be permitted in new territory
b. to help the South become more industrialized
c. to preserve the Union by appeasing both sides on the slavery issue
d. to keep the balance of free and slave states in Congress

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he is just saying c. to preserve the Union by appeasing both sides on the slavery issue hope i helped :P

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The statement that best summarizes the goal of the Compromise of 1850 would be "c. to preserve the Union by appeasing both sides on the slavery issue," since these were the tensions that would eventually lead to the outbreak of the Civil War.
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