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  2. 1850 in California - Wikipedia

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    April 4 - Los Angeles is incorporated as a city in California. April 15 - San Francisco is incorporated as a city in California. September 9 - California is admitted to the Union as the 31st state as a result of the California Statehood Act. [1] [2] [3]

  3. Slave states and free states - Wikipedia

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    In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they were prohibited. Between 1812 and 1850, it was considered by the slave states to be politically imperative that the number of free states not exceed the number of slave states ...

  4. Act for the Government and Protection of Indians - Wikipedia

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    During the time period between 1850 and 1870 in which the legislation was in effect, the Native Californian population of Los Angeles decreased from 3,693 to 219 people. Although the California legislature repealed parts of the statute after the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished involuntary servitude in 1865, [2 ...

  5. California Statehood Act - Wikipedia

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    An Act for the Admission of the State of California into the Union was the formal title given to the Congressional legislation passed by the 31st Congress, and signed by President Millard Fillmore on September 9, 1850, which admitted California as the 31st state to the Union.

  6. Category:1850 in California - Wikipedia

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  7. Nancy Gooch - Wikipedia

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    Nancy Gooch was one of the first African American women to become wealthy in California. Gooch and her husband got to Coloma, California, in 1849, and by 1850 began working at the gold-mining location. While doing domestic chores for the miners, the couple earned enough money to buy 80 acres of land in 1858, a year after they were wed. [3]

  8. Category:1850s in California - Wikipedia

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    Talk; Category: 1850s in California. 6 languages. ... 1850 in California (2 C, 26 P) 1851 in California (2 C, 11 P) 1852 in California (2 C, 21 P) 1853 in California ...

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