Which of the following factors contributed most to California's decision to apply for statehood in 1850?
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- A.Increase in population as a result of the Gold Rush
- B.Democratic Party success in the California legislature
- C.Local insistence that California would be a slaveholding state
- D.Decision of Congress to build a transcontinen tal railroad
- E.Realization that the United States would soon be at war with Mexico
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