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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]
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
After the election the California Constitution Convention met in the small town and former Californio capital of Monterey, California, in September 1849 to write a state constitution. [ 62 ] Like all U.S. states' constitutions, the California Constitution adhered closely to the format and government roles set up in the original 1789 U.S ...
California's constitution was drafted in both English and Spanish by American pioneers, European settlers, and Californios (Hispanics of California) and adopted at the 1849 Constitutional Convention of Monterey, following the American Conquest of California and the Mexican–American War and in advance of California's Admission to the Union in ...
In 1964, white Californians overwhelmingly voted to make segregation a part of the state's Constitution with the passage of Prop 14. In 1964, white Californians overwhelmingly voted to make ...
Once the state's Constitutional Convention had finalized its state constitution, it applied to the U.S. Congress for admission to statehood. On September 9, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 , California became a free state and September 9 a state holiday .
The article is a provision of California's state Constitution that requires voter approval before public housing is built in a community. At the time it passed in 1950, the real estate industry ...