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Because the US didn't want to upset the balance between the number of slave and free states (the Missouri Compromise).
Because it would upset the balance between free-states and slave-states, and went through the 36° 30' line, from the Missouri Compromise of 1820, thus it could not be solved easily.
The United States gained the land of California as part of the Mexican Cession after the Mexican-American war. After the United States acquired the land, many immigrants traveled here for work, including building railroads and mining. Towards the Civil War, California was looking to be admitted into the Union as a free state. The South did not like this idea, since it would upset the balance of power between free states and slave states in Congress. The Southern opposition was ignored, and California became a state as a provision in the Compromise of 1850.
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.
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It upset the balance of slave and free states
It upset the balance of slave & free states,
Made it difficult to create new slave-states, so the South always got outvoted in Congress.
Many reasons led up to the right of succession of the southern states. The south was unhappy about being taxed higher than the North for money just going towards the government. John Brown's Raid upset the south, along with Dred Scott Case, Compromise of 1850, and most importantly the Kansas-Nebraska Act
the compromise of 1850
The North was upset because the decision declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional. - Novanet
The compromise gave added clout to politicians in the south and increased resentment in the north. Both sides were upset by the compromise.
Because the US didn't want to upset the balance between the number of slave and free states (the Missouri Compromise).
Because it would upset the balance between free-states and slave-states, and went through the 36° 30' line, from the Missouri Compromise of 1820, thus it could not be solved easily.
The North was upset because the decision declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional. - Novanet
The North was upset because the decision declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional. - Novanet
The North was upset because the decision declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional. - Novanet