Question

Why did California’s application for statehood cause a sectional crisis?
Its entrance as a free state would upset the balance in favor of the North.
Its entrance as a slave state would upset the balance in favor of the South.
Its entrance a slave state would cause free African Americans there to lose their freedom.
Its entrance as free state would cause enslaved people there to be automatically freed

Answer 1

Answer:

Why did California's application for statehood cause a sectional crisis? Its entrance as a free state would upset the balance in favor of the North. Its entrance as a slave state would upset the balance in favor of the South. ... Its entrance as free state would cause enslaved people there to be automatically freed.

Explanation:

Answer 2

d. Its entrance as free state would cause enslaved people there to be automatically freed

Explanation:

• Following heated controversy in the US congress stemming from the slavery problems,  in 1849, Californians wanted statehood. California joined the Union as a democratic, free, non-slave state through the 1850 Resolution,
• California's inclusion would give the Senate 2 more seats than the South Slave States to the North Free States. The number of senators was equal among sectional interests before the admission of California.The 1850 compromise that allowed California's admission as a state escalated the sectional dispute dramatically.