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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
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.
American period: An enlargeable map of the United States as it has been since 1959. The following timeline traces the territorial evolution of California , the thirty-first state admitted to the United States of America , including the process of removing Indigenous Peoples from their native lands, or restricting them to reservations .
Murder State: California's Native American Genocide, 1846-1873. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0803269668. Madley, Benjamin (2016). An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300181364. McAfee, Ward (1973). California's Railroad Era, 1850 ...
Nancy Gooch (c. 1811 – September 17, 1901) was an early African American settler in California and one of the state's most successful 19th-century black female landowners. Gooch gained her freedom when California entered the Union as a free state in 1850.
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 ...
The 1849 constitutional government anticipated that California's petition to be accepted as a state into the union of United States of America would soon be approved. However, although the last military governor resigned on December 20 in favor of the first elected governor, California remained a de facto quasi-state for the next nine-plus ...
There are 58 counties of California currently.. California, the most populous state in the United States and third largest in area after Alaska and Texas, has been the subject of more than 220 proposals to divide it into multiple states since its admission to the Union in 1850, [1] including at least 27 significant proposals prior to the 21st century.