sep 9, 1850 - california is admitted to the union as a free state

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California was admitted to the Union as part of the Compromise of 1850 as a free state after being ceded to the United States by Mexico at the end of the Mexican–American War

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The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse ...

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sep 9, 1850

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~ 173 years ago

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