MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
COMPROMISE OF 1850
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Detailed explanation-1: -When California applied for statehood in 1849, there were 15 slave states and 15 free states. California wanted to be a free state, but-you guessed it!-that would upset the balance.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1850, before the Civil War and the emancipation of slaves, there were thirty-one states in the United States, 15 states were slave states and 16 states were free states.
Detailed explanation-3: -In a precarious effort to balance the concerns of Southern slave-holding interests and those against slavery’s expansion, Congress cobbled together the Compromise of 1850. The series of bills admitted California as a free state, while also granting important concessions to the South.
Detailed explanation-4: -the states that permitted slavery between 1820 and 1860: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
Detailed explanation-5: -New territories The 17 free states included Wisconsin (1848), California (1850) and Minnesota (1858), to outnumber the 15 slave states.