MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
COMPROMISE OF 1850
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state that allowed slavery
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state that allowed slavery in only its southern areas.
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state that did not allow slavery
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state that allowed slavery in only its northern areas.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Five northern states agreed to gradually abolish slavery, with Pennsylvania being the first state to approve, followed by New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. By the early 1800s, the northern states had all abolished slavery completely, or they were in the process of gradually eradicating it.
Detailed explanation-3: -It decreed that any black person who arrived pre-official statehood as a slave (prior to September 1850 ) would be considered a slave in the eyes of the law. This even though the California constitution banned slavery and the state had come into the Union as a supposed “free state” under the Compromise of 1850.