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SAT US History Practice Question

Which of the following factors contributed most to California's decision to apply for statehood in 1850?

  1. A.Increase in population as a result of the Gold Rush
  2. B.Democratic Party success in the California legislature
  3. C.Local insistence that California would be a slaveholding state
  4. D.Decision of Congress to build a transcontinen tal railroad
  5. E.Realization that the United States would soon be at war with Mexico

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