Question

What was Henry Clay's primary purpose in offering the compromise of 1850?

a. The avoid a civil war over the issue of slavery
b. To eliminate the practice of popular sovereignty
c. To provide stricter penalties for those who harbored fugitive slaves
d. To ensure that New Mexico and Utah would enter the Union as free states

Answer 1

Henry Clay's primary purpose in offering the compromise of 1850 was to avoid a civil war over the issue of slavery. The correct answer is A.