How was the Gold rush of 1849 linked to the slave controversy?

With the gold rush lots of people moved to California with so many people in California the question of California becoming a stage came up. So the many wondered was California going to be a slave state or a free state. If California became a free or slave state there would be a imbalance in power between the two factions.

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d)to gain support for the independence movement.

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