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In OTL California became a state very fast because of the Gold Rush.
WI the discovery of Gold was postponed to some decades after the ACW.
I REALIZE that thsi MIGHT have butterflied out the war but on the other hand JKanas and Nebraska had still been obtained. It could have happeneed.
Many people who disliked slavery felt that a multi racial society would be difficult and wanted freed slaves to migrate.
Could California have been a destination?
If its population was predominantly former slaves and their dependents coudl it have been accepted as a State