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Why did California's application for statehood cause a sectional crisis?

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The compromise of 1850 which allowed the admission of California as a state greatly increased sectional conflict. In return for the admission of an extra free state the slave state got a much stronger fugitive slave act , and the removal of the barrier to slavery north of the Madison Dixon Line.

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