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Why did the South fear admitting California as a free state?
Other territories might follow their example.
Non-slave states would control the Senate.
The admission would violate the Constitution.
It would deprive them of a market for their extra slaves.
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Non-slave states would control the Senate.
The South feared that admitting California as a free state would tip the Senate in favor of free states, allowing Congress to pass laws hostile to Southern interests (restricting slavery’s expansion or undermining slavery itself). While the precedent for other territories was a concern, the immediate political danger was loss of Senate parity and thus political power.
The South feared that admitting California as a free state would tip the Senate in favor of free states, allowing Congress to pass laws hostile to Southern interests (restricting slavery’s expansion or undermining slavery itself). While the precedent for other territories was a concern, the immediate political danger was loss of Senate parity and thus political power.
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