Question

American statesman Henry Clay helped to broker which of the following?

• A. The Compromise of 1850
• B. The Treaty of Versailles
• C. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• D. The admission of Missouri as a free state
• E. The admission of Maine as a slave state

Answer 1

The correct option is A The Compromise of 1850

The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War.