Question

If California entered as a free state, then the free states would have more votes in the ____________

Answer 1

1 its 1 btw if you didn't know

With the Gold Rush came a huge increase in population and a pressing need for civil government. In 1849, Californians sought statehood and, after heated debate in the U.S. Congress arising out of the slavery issue, California entered the Union as a free, nonslavery state by the Compromise of 1850.