What was a direct effect of the Compromise of 1850?
All of Texas now would be a slave state despite the fact that parts of it were previously free of slavery.
Utah and New Mexico would decide for themselves whether to be free or slave states.
The Democrats would have more power than the Whigs.
California would be a slave state.

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Answer:

California was admitted to the Union as a free state

The direct effect of the Compromise of 1850 was that the "California would be a slave state"

What is Compromise of 1850?

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

In 1849 California requested permission to enter the Union as a free state, potentially upsetting the balance between the free and slave states in the U.S. Senate

Hence, option D is correct.

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