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It allowed California to join the USA as free soil. But to get this law passed, Congress had to make a big show of appeasing the South by enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act, which was enormously unpopular in the North, arousing new interest in Abolitionism.

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The Compromise of 1850 was proposed by Henry Clay in obviously 1850. This stated that in order for CA to be admitted into the union that five things had to happen.

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the compromise made california a free state

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What state became a free state under the compromise of 1850?

After the Compromise of 1850 California became a free State, on September 9, 1850.


When did California become a free state?

The State of California became a free State when the Compromise of 1850 was passed.


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What year did California join the US?

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the most controversial part of the 1850 compromise was California becoming a free state.


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