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Welcome
to U.S. history!
 | 1849 "49ers" rushed to California to dig for gold and
other riches. |
| 1849 California asked for admission to the Union as a free state. |
| 1850 Congress debated sectional issues and enacted the Compromise
of 1850. |
| * As a concession on another issue — the existence of slavery in the
District of Columbia — Henry Clay suggested to prohibit the buying and selling of
slaves in the nations capital. Finally he called for more vigorous enforcement of the
Fugitive Slave Law. |
| 1850 About 370,000 immigrants arrived in 1850 in the United States. |
| *Causes,** leading causes, ***immediate leading causes for a Civil War. |
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