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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 ...
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.
Alaska Statehood Act, admitting Alaska as a state in the Union as of January 3, 1959. Hawaii Admission Act, admitting Hawaii as a state in the Union as of August 21, 1959. Legal status of Hawaii. List of states and territories of the United States. Federalism in the United States.
The third and final interim government phase ended when Congress approved the California Statehood Act as part of the Compromise of 1850, making California the 31st state on September 9, 1850.
Alaska Statehood Act, admitting Alaska as a state in the Union as of January 3, 1959; Hawaii Admission Act, admitting Hawaii as a state in the Union as of August 21, 1959; Federalism in the United States; List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union; List of U.S. state partition proposals; Perpetual Union; State cessions
The territory that became the present state of California was acquired by the U.S. as a result of American victory in the Mexican–American War and subsequent 1848 Mexican Cession. After the war, a confrontation erupted between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of these acquired territories.
California's Lone Star coup and declaration of independence, 1836. Las Californias Department established by Las Siete Leyes (The Seven Laws), 1836–1846. Second Federal Republic of Mexico, 1846–1848. Alta California Territory reestablished when 1824 Constitution of Mexico was restored, 1846–1848. Mexican–American War, 1846–1848.
Date: Events surrounding the United States' conquest of California: 1816: Thomas W. Doak from Boston, MA became the first Anglo-American to settle in Spanish California after arriving in Monterey Bay aboard his ship the Albatross. He was baptized at San Carlos Mission in 1816 as Felipe Santiago and was employed at San Juan Bautista Mission in ...