A. How did the South react when California joined the United States in 1850? Why did they react this way?

The South did not take it as well. Why were southerners against California's admission to the Union as a free state? Because they wanted to spread slavery all across the nation. Calhoun wanted slavery in the South. He strongly supported slavery to be allowed anywhere in the nation and for any fugitive slaves to be returned from the North.

native americans suffered high rates of poverty and unemployment.

during the late 1960s and early 1970sthe need for political militancy grew among the native americans. throughout the 1960s, they had been the nation's poorest minority group, the most deprived group, according to practically every socioeconomic measure. in 1970, the indian unemployment rate was 10 times the national average, and 40 percent of the native american people were below the poverty line.