Which best explains why california’s application for statehood causes a sectional crisis

California's entrance as a free state would cause enslaved people there to be freed automatically.

the Answer is D i just took the test

Explanation:

president thomas jefferson commissioned the expedition shortly after the louisiana purchase in 1803 to explore and to map the newly acquired territory, to find a practical route across the western half of the continent, and to establish an american presence in this territory before britain and other european powers

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