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The California Statehood Act, officially An Act for the Admission of the State of California into the Union and also known as the California Admission Act, is the federal legislation that admitted California to the United States as the thirty-first state. Passed in 1850 by the 31st United States Congress, the law made California one of only a ...
The Society of California Pioneers, established in 1850, is dedicated to the study and enjoyment of California art, history, and culture. Founded by individuals arriving in California before 1850 and thriving under the leadership of several generations of their direct descendants, the Society has continuously served its members, the academic ...
The Compromise of 1850 later permitted California to be admitted to the Union as a free state. Gwin and war hero/abolitionist John C. Frémont became California's first Senators . Although California entered the Union as a free state, the framers of the state constitution wrote into law the systematic denial of suffrage and other civil rights ...
The California Constitution of 1849 outlawed any form of slavery in the state, and later the Compromise of 1850 allowed California to be admitted into the Union, undivided, as a free state. Nevertheless, as per the 1850 Act for the Government and Protection of Indians, a number of Native Americans were formally enslaved in the state, a practice ...
The following is a list of American governors of California, elected to office by 1899. Peter Burnett (1849–1851) Independent Democrat. John McDougall (1851–1852) Independent Democrat. John Bigler (1852–1856) Democrat. J. Neeley Johnson (1856–1858) American ( Know-Nothing) John Weller (1858–1860) Democrat.
1850 in the United States by state or territory. Years of the 19th century in California. 1850s in California. Hidden categories: Commons category link from Wikidata. Category series navigation year redirected (base change) Category series navigation using skip-gaps parameter. Category series navigation year and decade.
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