It allowed California to enter the union as free soil, in exchange for a couple of new slave-states and the toughening-up of the Fugitive Slave Act.
compromise of 1850
compromise of 1850
Allowed California to be admitted to the Union as two states - North California and South California, divided along the line of the Missouri Compromise.
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Compromise of 1850
California was admitted to the Union as a Free State.
maine maineMissouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state. This was done through what is known as the Missouri Compromise.
The Compromise of 1850 said slavery should be forbidden in all lands taken from Mexico. The Compromise allowed California to be admitted as a free state into the Union.
No, thanks to the Compromise of 1850, California entered the Union as a free state.
California's request to be admitted into the Union caused problems because the state wanted to be admitted as a free state. If the government allowed that it would have upset the balance of slave and free states.
Because it allowed California to enter the Union as free soil.
California was admitted into the Union on September 9, 1850 becoming the 31st state to join the Union.