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The south in an uproar threatened to secede, if the balance of slave and free states was not maintained.
It threatened to upset the balance of power between free and slave states.
Compromise of 1850.
A free state. If it could have been admitted to the Union as two states - North California and South California - it might have been possible to avert the civil war.
Well, the South and North had disagreements about it. Before they had a balance between free and slave states. If CA would be a free state then it will upset the balance and in a way threaten the South.
California's entrance as a free state would upset the legislative balance in favor of the North. California's entrance as a slave state would upset the legislative balance in favor of the South. California's entrance as a slave state would cause free African Americans there to lose their freedom. California's entrance as a free state would cause enslaved people there to be freed automatically.
California is huge and the South wanted California to be part of the Confederacy.
They were still allowed to have slaves in the south.
The State of California became a free State when the Compromise of 1850 was passed.
The Compromise of 1850 was the plan in which California entered the US as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Law was passed. This compromise aimed to address the issue of slavery expansion between free and slave states. The Fugitive Slave Law required that escaped slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in free states.
After the Compromise of 1850 California became a free State, on September 9, 1850.
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