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How was California able to join the Union as a free state?

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I looked it up. In 1849, Californians sought statehood and, after heated debate in the U.S. Congress arising out of the slavery issue, California entered the Union as a free, nonslavery state by the Compromise of 1850. California became the 31st state on September 9, 1850.
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Per the Compromise of 1850.

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