Under the terms of the Compromise of 1850
a. California was admitted to the Union as a free state, and the issue of slavery in Utah and New Mexico territories would be left up to popular sovereignty.
b. California was admitted as a free state, and Utah and New Mexico as slave states.
c. California, Utah, and New Mexico were kept as territories but with slavery prohibited.
d. New Mexico and Texas were admitted as slave states and Utah and California as free states.
e. the South and North agreed that the number of slave and free states should remain equal.
Answer: A