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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the free soil

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party they probably would have gotten further with free pizza ...check out the [Free soil party people with a pizza box]

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excerpt.....

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and now for the

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question one effect of the compromise of 1850 was what and here your potential answers....

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well pretty straightforward right which one of these options was caused by the [Man assessing answer choices]

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compromise well it's definitely not option B the Free Soil party was

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actually more inspired by the failure of the wilmot proviso in 1846 those guys

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were doing their thing years before the 1850 compromise, we told you Maths

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would be useful someday choice A isn't true either the compromise didn't [Men shaking hands]

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flat-out prohibit slavery in New Territories that wouldn't have made the

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South very happy and then it wouldn't have been much of a compromise of course

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it didn't actually managed to make anybody happy for very long so we can

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eliminate D too. The sectional tension eventually got so intense it

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killed the two-party system and gave rise to new sectionalist parties like [Men firing guns]

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the Republicans so it looks like C is the best answer - The compromise may have

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initially soothed rival politicians of the north and south but it made their

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constituents very unhappy ultimately the compromise of 1850 was like Congress [Man stood outside Congress with wounds on his face]

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trying to put a bandaid on a gushing wound...next time guys try duct tape

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that stuff fixes pretty much everything...

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