USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -California became the 31st state on September 9, 1850. The legislature was unsatisfied with the location, so former General and State Senator Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo donated land in the future city of Vallejo for a new capital; the legislature convened there for one week in 1852 and again for a month in 1853.

Detailed explanation-3: -California’s application for statehood caused an uproar because it was applying as a non-slave state. The slave states and non-slave states avoided conflict by always having an equal amount of slave and non-slave states, however, California would upset this balance.

Detailed explanation-4: -It had been given limits by the Missouri Compromise in 1820 and had no opportunity to overstep them. The new territories made renewed expansion of slavery a real likelihood. Many Northerners believed that if not allowed to spread, slavery would ultimately decline and die.