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Gold Rush impact
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California’s Golden Admission: When Did California Became a State?
The path to California’s admission wasn’t linear. It began with Mexican rule, then American conquest, and finally the messy negotiations of the 1850s. When the...
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California’s Golden Admission: The Exact Moment It Became a State
The Gold Rush of 1848 didn’t just bring prospectors—it brought chaos. Overnight, California’s population exploded from a few thousand to tens of thousands...
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California’s Golden Admission: When Was California Made a State?
The path to statehood began long before the ink dried on the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, which ceded California to the U.S. after the Mexican-American...
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The Exact Day Colorado Became a State—and Why It Changed America Forever
What makes Colorado’s story unique is how its statehood was tied to broader national anxieties. The Civil War had just ended, and the question of whether new...
