When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. California Statehood Act - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Statehood_Act

    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.

  3. History of California - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_California

    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.

  4. List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by...

    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]

  5. Admission to the Union - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admission_to_the_Union

    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

  6. History of California before 1900 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_California...

    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 ...

  7. Column: Gerrymandering still exists in California. But ...

    www.aol.com/news/gerrymandering-still-exists...

    State Sen. Bob Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys), who as Assembly speaker helped lead the 2001 redistricting by the Legislature, says: “A lot of people are complaining about this commission.

  8. Politics of California before 1900 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_California...

    The short-lived declaration of an independent California Republic in 1846 was followed 25 days later by the onset of the Mexican–American War.After the resulting conquest of Alta California by United States military forces and American volunteers, California was administered by the U.S. military from 1846 to 1850.

  9. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

    projects.huffingtonpost.com/dying-to-be-free...

    Vermont, a state with a long waiting list for medically based drug treatment, suspended a doctor’s license over incomplete paperwork. As doctors face scrutiny from the DEA, states have imposed even greater regulations severely limiting access to the medications, according to a 2014 report commissioned by the federal agency SAMHSA.