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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.
Because it allowed California to enter the Union as free soil.
No, thanks to the Compromise of 1850, California entered the Union as a free state.
The Compromise of 1850. It was cobbled together rather desperately, and did not last.
California petitioned to enter the Union in 1849 as a free state, as in no slaves allowed. However, this would have upset the balance between free and slave states. Eventually, through the Compromise of 1850, California would be allowed to enter as a free state.
The Compromise of 1850
Missouri compromise
1850. The admission of California was the biggest issue in the Compromise of 1850.
The Missouri Compromise, passed in 1820, allowed Missouri to enter the United States as a slave state, allowed Maine to enter as a free state, and limited slavery in the territories of the Louisiana Purchase to land south of 36°30' N.
The Missouri Compromise temporarily settled the debate over slavery by allowing Missouri enter the Union as a slave state. Maine was allowed to enter the Union as a free state.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed a slave state into the union when alternated with a free state. The compromise allowed Missouri to enter the US as a slave state and part of Massachusetts was divided to allow the entrance of Maine into the US as a free state.
The compromise of 1820 allowed the state of Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state in exhange for Maine entering as a free state. The compromise also stated that any state west of the Mississippi River would enter as a free state.