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How California Came to Be Admitted
Reprint of a 1900 San Francisco Chronicle article that discusses the significance of the status of California as an anti-slavery state when it was admitted into the United States on September 9, 1850. From the Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco.
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist5/caladmit.html

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