They came for gold
Not to mention that the main reason was because the Union wasn't sure whether California would enter as a slave state or not. The northerners wanted California to be free, the southerners wanted California to bee slave.
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California
California is state 31 and was admitted into the United States in the Compromise of 1850. It is one of the largest states in America.
California is a state.
California's constitution outlawed slavery. Southern slave states didn't want California or any other state to be admitted to the Union as a free state because it would upset the balance of free states to slave states. The matter was settled by the Compromise of 1850.
Mining attracted flocks of people and provided money and an economy. This led to statehood. The greatest success story is that of California, who achieved statehood from the California Gold Rush in the 1800s.
Mining attracted flocks of people and provided money and an economy. This led to statehood. The greatest success story is that of California, who achieved statehood from the California Gold Rush in the 1800s.
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California's application for statehood caused an uproar because it was applying as a non-slave state. The slave states and non-slave states avoided conflict by always having an equal amount of slave and non-slave states, however, California would upset this balance. This gave the South an uneasy feeling.
because the constitution enabled the northern states to control all money in the country. it kept the northern states in power f mney and the southern states nd kept them poor
California was part of the land ceded to the United States by Mexico in 1848 after they lost the Mexican-American War. It became a U.S. state in September 1850. California is one of the very few added states that did not go through a territorial period before statehood. It was rushed to statehood due to the California Gold Rush.
United States District Court for the Southern District of California was created on 1886-08-05.