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Which best explains why California’s application for statehood causes a sectional crisis

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it is California's entrance as a slave state would upset the legislative balance in favor of the South. California's entrance as a slave state would cause free African Americans there to lose their freedom.

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I believe it is; Its entrance as a free state would upset the balance in favor of the North.

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