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The Compromise of 1850 allowed California to be admitted to the Union as a free state on September 9, 1850. The Utah Territory and the New Mexico Territory were formed by the Compromise of 1850 and these two territories could permit or prohibit slavery as a local option (popular sovereignty).
The war with Mexico resulted in California and the southwest territory becoming part of the United States.
The Missouri Compromise
Missouri & Maine. APEX.
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It entered the Union as a result of the Missouri Compromise.
Compromise of 1850
maine entered the union as a slave state
No, thanks to the Compromise of 1850, California entered the Union as a free state.
Under the provisions of the Missouri Compromise, Maine was the state that entered the Union with Missouri.
Missouri entered the union as a slave state, Maine entered the union as a free state, it was compromised that there would be no more slave states above the 36th parallel(Missouri was to be the only exception)
A territory could join the union as a state once its population surpassed sixty thousand. The Michigan territory entered into the union on January twenty six, eighteen thirty seven.
That's exactly what happened, as specified by the Missouri Compromise of 1820!
The issue of whether new states would be allowed to permit slavery became crucial as states entered the union. This issue led to significant debates and compromises such as the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850. It ultimately contributed to the escalating tensions between the North and South, which culminated in the American Civil War.
Maine entered the US as a free state. The state was carved out of territory ceded from Massachusetts. This was part of the 1820 Missouri Compromise. This act allowed Missouri to enter the US as a slave state. In order to keep the balance between free and slave states intact. And, so Maine was created as a free state.
It became the 23rd state when it entered the U.S. as a part of the Missouri Compromise.