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(Monday, September 9, 1850) — California, located in the Pacific Region of the United States, became the 31st state in the Union today as part of the Compromise of 1850, which defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War (California was admitted as a free state).

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