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California Statehood Act; Other short titles: California Admissions Act: Long title: An Act for the Admission of the State of California into the Union: Enacted by: the 31st United States Congress: Effective: September 9, 1850: Citations; Public law: Pub. L. 31–49: Statutes at Large: 9 Stat. 452: Legislative history
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]
September 9 - California is admitted to the Union as the 31st state as a result of the California Statehood Act. [1] [2] [3] Ongoing. California gold rush (1848-1855)
Enabling Act of 1906 authorizing residents of Oklahoma, Indian, New Mexico, and Arizona territories to form state governments (Indian and Oklahoma territories to be combined into one state) and to gain admission to the Union; Alaska Statehood Act, admitting Alaska as a state in the Union as of January 3, 1959
By the end of 1966, only four out of 13 southern states had fewer than 50 percent of African Americans registered to vote. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was readopted and strengthened in 1970 ...
They make up 18% of all California Latino legislators, in a state where a survey released this year by the National Assn. of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials — headed by a Downey Latina ...
As agreed to in the Compromise of 1850, Congress passed the California Statehood Act on September 9, 1850. [65] Thirty-eight days later the Pacific Mail Steamship SS Oregon brought word to San Francisco on October 18, 1850, that California was now the 31st state. There was a celebration that lasted for weeks.
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