<em>D. The slave trade was banned in Washington, D.C.</em>
Explanation:
After the Mexican-American War ended, the United States had a lot more territory to deal with. Slavery was always a huge debate during this time, but now that there were more territories, people started to get nervous about how the new territories would be split up into free and slave states.
The Compromise of 1850 were laws and compromises that set the field for the slavery situation in the new territories. These laws tried to be as fair and unbiased as possible, since slavery was controversial during this time.
With these laws, California was now a free state, the slave trade was now prohibited in Washington, D.C, and Texas lost New Mexico, but got money from the government in the process.
Common Sense Thomas Paine published Common Sense in January 1776 support of the Patriot cause.
<span>Assuming that this is referring to the same list of options that was posted before with this question, <span>the correct response would be the one having to do with "customer support centers for American companies" being based overseas, since this shows the extent of corporate and national interconnectedness. </span></span>
The answer is B. the United States.
The line is "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the Unites States of America."
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