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Why was south concerned about the territory won

from Mexice becoming free teritory?


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Many Southerners realized that they would lose the tie in free and slave states in the United States Senate that had been maintained since the passage of the Missouri Compromise in 1820. For this reason, they refused to support California's admission to the Union.

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