The Articles of Confederation tried to <span>preserve the states' sovereignty but they failed. It ended up not giving congress enough power and the Articles of Confederation were eventually replaced with the US Constitution.</span>
In 1849 Californians sought statehood and after heated debate in the U.S Cogness arising out of slavery issue, California entered the union as a free, non slavery state by the compromise of 1850. California became the 31st state on September 9, 1850.
