What was Henry Clay's primary purpose in offering the compromise of 1850?
AThe avoid a civil war over the issue of slavery
BTo eliminate the practice of popular sovereignty
CTo provide stricter penalties for those who harbored fugitive slaves
DTo ensure that New Mexico and Utah would enter the Union as free states
AThe avoid a civil war over the issue of slavery
BTo eliminate the practice of popular sovereignty
CTo provide stricter penalties for those who harbored fugitive slaves
DTo ensure that New Mexico and Utah would enter the Union as free states