A free state.
If it could have been admitted to the Union as two states - North California and South California - it might have been possible to avert the civil war.
california
On Monday September 9,1850 California entered the Union as the 31st state.
Yes, California entered the Union prior to the Civil War.
California's request to be admitted into the Union caused problems because the state wanted to be admitted as a free state. If the government allowed that it would have upset the balance of slave and free states.
The prospect of California joining the Union as a slave-state, giving them a great slave empire extending all the way to the Pacific.
Under the provisions of the Missouri Compromise, Maine was the state that entered the Union with Missouri.
None, Maine was the only state to join the union in 1820.
california
California was admitted into the Union on September 9, 1850 becoming the 31st state to join the Union.
Oregon entered as a Free State.
On Monday September 9,1850 California entered the Union as the 31st state.
If California entered the Union it would enter as a free state, the balance of power would be broken
Missouri entered the union as a slave state, Maine entered the union as a free state, it was compromised that there would be no more slave states above the 36th parallel(Missouri was to be the only exception)
maine entered the union as a slave state
West Virginia, though there was very little slavery there.
California became a free state in 1850, ending the balance of free states and slave states. However, the slave states got a tougher fugitive slave law as a result of California's admission to the Union as a free state.
California entered the Union as a free state in 1850.