California Statehood Act information

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...

the Hawaii Statehood Commission, to stop them from spending public money to lobby for statehood, invalidating a single section of the Act which created...

The Alaska Statehood Act (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 85–508, 72 Stat. 339, enacted July 7, 1958) was introduced by Delegate E.L. Bob Bartlett...

Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit). The District was created on September 28, 1850, following the passage of the California Statehood Act...

the Mexican period (1821–1848), and United States statehood (September 9, 1850–present). California was one of the most culturally and linguistically...

interim government of California existed from soon after the outbreak of the Mexican–American War in mid-1846 until U.S. statehood in September, 1850. There...

Valley officially became part of the State of California on September 9, 1850, when the California Statehood Act was approved by the federal government. In...

Between the Interim government of California and California's statehood, the Mayor was appointed by the Governor of California in 1848 and was elected in 1850...

and have made their desire for statehood known to the federal government, Congress in most cases has passed an enabling act, authorizing the people of that...

Mexican–American War in 1848, the U.S. took control of California and passed the California Statehood Act on September 9, 1850. In the latter half of the 19th...

of California (see California Constitutional Boundaries), October 13, 1849 Compromise of 1850 State of California since 1850 California Statehood Act, September...

during the great California Gold Rush. By the time of California's application for statehood in 1850, the settler population of California had multiplied...

granting statehood to one of the United States' territories, splitting one or more of the existing states up to form a new state, or granting statehood to the...

in the 1850s to achieve a separate statehood or territorial status from Northern California. In 1855, the California State Assembly passed a plan to trisect...

state with land promised in gaining statehood and the Natives with a 40-million-acre (160,000 km2) land base. This act (43 U.S.C. § 1617) was signed into...

Territories Quarter Program was authorized by the passage of a newer legislative act, H.R. 2764. This program features the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico,...

state of Tennessee. Michigan, California, Minnesota, Oregon, and Alaska likewise elected shadow senators before statehood. The Alaska Territory also elected...

increase allowed California to go rapidly to statehood in the Compromise of 1850. The Gold Rush had severe effects on Native Californians and accelerated...

years later was part of the Missouri Territory. When Missouri was granted statehood in 1821 the area became unorganized territory and contained few if any...

constitution in order for Utah to receive statehood. These provisions are outlined in Section 3 of the Act, and include the following: That the delegates...

This is a list of Mexican states by date of statehood, that is, the date when each state was accepted by Congress of the Union as a free and sovereign...

act of April 30, 1802, "has become one of the United States of America." Neither act, however, set a formal date of statehood. An official statehood date...

Baja California (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbaxa kaliˈfoɾnja] ; 'Lower California'), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California (English: Free...

(1846–48). approved California's request to enter the Union as a free state strengthened fugitive slave laws with the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 banned the...