On January 29, 1850, the 70-year-old Clay presented a compromise. For eight months members of Congress, led by Clay, Daniel Webster, Senator from Massachusetts, and John C. Calhoun, senator from South Carolina, debated the compromise. With the help of Stephen Douglas, a young Democrat from Illinois, a series of bills that would make up the compromise were ushered through Congress.
<span>According to the compromise, Texas would relinquish the land in dispute but, in compensation, be given 10 million dollars -- money it would use to pay off its debt to Mexico. Also, the territories of New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah would be organized without mention of slavery. (The decision would be made by the territories' inhabitants later, when they applied for statehood.) Regarding Washington, the slave trade would be abolished in the District of Columbia, although slavery would still be permitted. Finally, California would be admitted as a free state. To pacify slave-state politicians, who would have objected to the imbalance created by adding another free state, the Fugitive Slave Act was passed.</span>
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One main reason why John C Breckenridge supported the purchase of the Louisiana territory was because he thought it would held end the issue of slavery, by leaving it up to "popular sovereignty" in the new territory.
The correct answer is B) boundaries in Africa were drawn without regard to areas of ethnic groups.
<em>An example of how Western Imperialist led to regional conflicts was that boundaries in Africa were drawn without regard to areas of ethnic groups. </em>
When Western imperialist countries divided the continent of Africa, they did so without taking into consideration the history, traditions, culture, and Ethnicity of the tribes that already were settled there for years. European countries split Africa in an arbitrary form and established borders in the colonial times that did not respect and represented their heritage, creating a big ethnicity problem that still exists nowadays.
<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>
