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24 August, 01:47

3. Which of the following was an outcome of California's application for statehood?

A. Southern slaveholders could use slave labor to search for gold.

B. The balance in the Senate tipped in favor of slave states.

C. Western expansion ended and Manifest Destiny was fulfilled.

D. The debate over the spread of slavery grew more bitter.

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  1. 24 August, 02:07
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    The correct answer is D) "the debate over the spread of slavery grew more bitter. "

    An outcome of California's application for statehood was "the debate over the spread of slavery grew more bitter. "

    California became part of the United States territory after the Mexican-American War Both countries signed the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in February 1848, in which Mexico also lost the territories of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico.

    The next year, California wanted to be a state of the Union, and the issue of slavery increased. After much debate on Congress, California became the 31st state of the Union on September 8, 1850. It entered as a free non-slavery state.
  2. 24 August, 02:17
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    Option B. The balance in the Senate tipped in favor of slave states was an outcome of California's application for statehood

    Explanation:

    The entrance of California as a free state would interrupt the balance of senate supremacy between the south slave states and north Free states.

    Its arrival as a union would cause the native African Americans to lose their freedom.

    In 1849, California was engaged in a fiery deliberations and sought statehood. After the Compromise pact that was signed in 1850, California became a free state and the confined natives became free.
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