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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.
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.
Nov 16, 2009 · Though it had only been a part of the United States for less than two years, California becomes the 31st state in the union (without ever even having been a territory) on September 9, 1850.
- Missy Sullivan
Sep 9, 2000 · Two senators from California would tilt the balance of power in the Senate against the slave-owning South, and the House of Representatives already had a substantial majority of members from non-slavery states.
California officially became a free state on September 9th of that year, but the Fugitive Slave Act Congress passed along with-it infuriated people in Northern states and split the ever-widening divide between North and South even further.
granted California statehood, the first California Legislature reviewed an important piece of Indian legislation: the first version failed to become law, the second version became law on the last day of the session.
The Act for the Government and Protection of Indians, passed by the state legislature in 1850, denied native Californians the right to testify in court and allowed white Americans and Californios to keep natives as indentured servants.
