Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Colorado Territory existed until it was admitted into the Union as the State of Colorado on August 1, 1876. The Colorado Enabling Act is signed on March 3, 1875. On March 3, 1875, U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signed An Act to enable the people of Colorado to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of the said ...
The Territory of Colorado was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from February 28, 1861, [2] until August 1, 1876, when it was admitted to the Union as the 38th State of Colorado. [3]
The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]
August 1 — The Territory of Colorado is admitted to the union of the United States as the 38th U.S. state. [2] October 3 — 1876 Colorado gubernatorial election: John Long Routt is elected as the first governor of Colorado. [3]
On August 1, 1876 (28 days after the Centennial of the United States), President Ulysses S. Grant signed Proclamation 230 [14] admitting the state of Colorado to the Union as the 38th state and earning it the moniker "Centennial State". The borders of the new state coincided with the borders established for the Colorado Territory.
With the adoption of the 64th state amendment in 2012, Colorado became the first state in the union to legalize marijuana for medicinal (2000), industrial (referring to hemp, 2012), and recreational (2012) use. Colorado's marijuana industry sold $1.31 billion worth of marijuana in 2016 and $1.26 billion in the first three-quarters of 2017. [209]
The 1876 Colorado gubernatorial election took place on October 3, 1876, to elect the 1st Governor of Colorado after the state was admitted to the union on August 1, 1876. . Republican John Long Routt, last governor of the Colorado Territory, was elected in a close race against Democratic nominee Bela M. Hug
April 12, 1876. The District of Keewatin was created by the passage of the Keewatin Act on April 12, 1876, in a central separate strip from the North-West Territories, in order to provide government for the growing area north of Manitoba and west of Ontario. [75] [76] August 1, 1876. Colorado Territory was admitted to the US as the 38th state ...