When was ca admitted to the union

Again, the facilities available were unsuitable to house a state government, and the capital was soon moved three miles away to the little town of Benicia, inland from the San Francisco Bay. A lovely brick statehouse was built in old American style complete with white cupola. Although strategically sited between the Gold Rush territory of the Sierra Foothills and the financial port of San Francisco, the site was too small for expansion, and so the capital was moved further inland past the Sacramento River Delta to the riverside port of Sacramento in Sacramento was the site of John Sutter's large farm and his fort.

In , during the midst of the Bear Flag Revolt, the fort was an oasis. In , President Zachary Taylor, mindful that the admission of California to the Union as a free state would upset the even balance of power in Congress between pro- and anti-slavery senators, directed his military governor in California, General Bennett Riley, to form a government as quickly as possible, and deal quickly with the issue of slavery. Because the Senate had just approved the admission of Oregon as a free U.

Although Taylor was himself a former slave owner, he believed that California, having outlawed slavery when it was a Mexican territory, should not have it imposed by outsiders.

In September, , only nine months after the discovery of gold, the state sent 48 delegates to Monterey to draft a state constitution and decide other aspects of government. Toklas began staying with Stein and Leo in Paris in , then moved in permanently in Audiences at the Fox Theater in Riverside, California, get a surprise showing of Gone with the Wind, which the theater manager shows as a second feature. Producer David O. Selznick sat in the back and observed the audience reaction to his highly anticipated—and highly The infamous Boston Police Strike of begins, causing an uproar around the nation and confirming the growing influence of unions on American life.

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Ironically, despite their enthusiasm for the war, the South ended up getting hurt as a by-product. Once the Compromise of was passed by Congress the government of California wasted no time in becoming a state. The dreams of many came true when California entered the Union. The U.