Happy 173 rd birthday, California !
On Sept. 9, 1850, California became the 31 st state to be admitted to the Union after the Compromise of 1850 was signed by then-President Millard Fillmore.
California became a state relatively quickly, as the Gold Rush that started in 1848 – just days after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed between the U.S. and Mexico, which ceded most of the Southwest and all of present-day California to the states – led to an influx of settlers, and a hasty constitutional convention was held the following year.It was at this convention that the state […]
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