It was the only state physically & politically formed directly because of the Civil War
[DOC] [TLE] Compromise of 1850 - Wikipedia [PAR] The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the 
United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political 
confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories 
acquired during the MexicanAmerican War (18461848) ...