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The second session of the North Carolina General Assembly of 1777 meet in New Bern, North Carolina and signs a law establishing the North Carolina Superior Court. November 17 – The Articles of Confederation are submitted to the states for ratification. November 25 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Gloucester
January 15, 1777 The northeastern region of New York, known as the New Hampshire Grants, declared independence as New Connecticut. [32] [33] [34] Disputes: March 4, 1777 The Continental Congress returned to Philadelphia after the threat to it by British forces ended. [25] [26] June 4, 1777 New Connecticut was renamed Vermont. [34] [32] Disputes:
The history of Los Angeles began in 1781 ... it was the Spanish governor of California who named the settlement. In 1777, ... Though Jim Crow laws did not exist ...
California was part of New Spain until that kingdom dissolved in 1821, becoming part of Mexico until the Mexican–American War (1846–1848), when it was ceded to the United States under the terms of the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The same year, the California gold rush began, triggering intensified U.S. westward expansion.
In response to widespread public disgust with the powerful railroads that controlled California's politics and economy at the start of the 20th century, Progressive Era politicians pioneered the concept of aggressively amending the state constitution by initiative in order to remedy perceived evils. [7]
1777– All states pass laws which take away women's right to vote. 1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman to receive a patent, for a method of weaving straw with silk.
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In 1868, the California Legislature authorized the first of many ad hoc Code Commissions to begin the process of codifying California law. Each Code Commission was a one- or two-year temporary agency which either closed at the end of the authorized period or was reauthorized and rolled over into the next period; thus, in some years there was no ...