Why did the compromise that altered the boundaries of free and slave states as shown in the map above fail to resolve conflicts before the Civil War?A) California was admitted to the union as a free state, upsetting the balance of free and slave states.

B) The compromise called for the distribution of land in the western territories to newly emancipated slaves.

C) Texas decided to become a free state, leaving other southern states vulnerable to attack from free states in the west.

D) The compromise provided temporary solutions but did not establish firm provisions for balancing the admission of free and slave states.

Answer:

The corrrect answer is D. The Compromise of 1850 provided temporary solutions but did not establish firm provisions for balancing the admission of free and slave states.

Explanation:

Many historians argue that the Compromise of 1850 played a fundamental role in postponing the Civil War for a decade, during which the Northeast of the United States was growing in wealth and population and establishing a closer relationship with the Northwest of the country. Also during this decade the Whig Party had been completely destroyed, being replaced by the dominant Republican Party (1854) in the north and another fraction of the Whig entered the southern Democratic Party. But there is another vision about the implications of the Compromise, this is how other historians argue that it only made the pre-existing divisions more obvious, laying the foundations for the future conflict. Under this thesis, the Fugitive Slave Act emanating from the Compromise of 1850 only helped polarize tensions between the North and the South.

What is mostly agreed is that the delay of hostilities for 10 years allowed the free economy of the northern states to continue their industrialization. On the contrary, the southern states had long been developing an economy of large landowners based on slave labor and where their form of productive cultivation was not compromised with the principles for great industrialization. During the 1860s, the northerners, with an economy of small industrial capitals, had added many more miles of railroad, had increased their steel production, also increased the proliferation of modern factories and also grew the population of their territories compared to their development in 1850. All these factors would give an advantage to the possibilities of the North against the South in the Civil War that would take place in 1861.

The reason that free and slave state boundaries didn't work is because they couldn't be agreed on, hope this helps