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California was admitted as a state in 1850 in exchange for tougher fugitive slave laws as part of the Compromise of 1850.
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Explanation : The Compromise of 1850 was made up of five bills that attempted to resolve disputes over slavery in new territories added to the United States in the wake of the Mexican American war(1846-48). it admitted California as a free state , left Utah and New Mexico to decide for themselves whether to be a slave state or a free state , defined a new Texas - New Mexico boundary , and made it easier for slaveowners to recover runways under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington D.C, was abolished. Furthermore, California entered the Union as a free state and a territorial government was created in Utah.