California Statehood Act

California Statehood Act

Other short titles	California Admissions Act
Long title	An Act for the Admission of the State of California into the Union
Enacted by	the 31st United States Congress
Effective	September 9, 1850
Citations
Public law	Pub. L. 31–49
Statutes at Large	9 Stat. 452
Legislative history
Introduced in the Senate as S. 169 Passed the Senate on August 14, 1850 (34–18) Passed the House on September 7, 1850 (150–56) Signed into law by President Millard Fillmore on September 9, 1850

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. Passed in 1850 by the 31st United States Congress, the law made California one of only a few states to become a state without first being an organized territory.