1. Texas was an independent Country before it bacame a state of the U.S.
- Texas joined the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845. Texas was formerly a part of Mexico, but it became a sovereign nation in 1836.
- Texas has pushed for annexation by the US ever since gaining its independence. However, because of political disagreements regarding slavery, the procedure took over 10 years.
2. A territory has to write Constitution when becoming a state.
- The territory is obliged to adopt a system of government and constitution that complies with the US Constitution, if it hasn't already.
3. Florida bacame a state in 1845.
- On March 3, 1845, Florida was admitted as the twenty-seventh state to the Union.
4. House of Representatives ans Senate both need to favor the bill that proposes statehood for a territory.
- A joint resolution admitting the territory as a state is approved by the U.S. Congress—both the House and the Senate—by a simple majority vote.
- The joint resolution is signed by the president of the United States, and the area is recognized as a state of the union.
5. U.S. gained Florida by the Treaty of Adams-Onis.
6. A territory needs large enough population to become a state.
- A territory's residents must express their desire to become US citizens in a public vote before it may be considered for statehood.
- However, the population must be substantial enough to create and support a State.
7. Congress has the power to admit new states to the United States.
Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1:
- New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
8. Florida has to wait to become a state at the same time as Lowa to maintain the balance between slave and free states.
- To keep the slave and free states in balance, Congress had long battled. As a result, it would take Congress six years to carry out Florida's request. Congress was forced to hold off on creating a free state until another territory was prepared.
9. Bill granting statehood to a territory must be signed by the President.
10. By Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo the U.S. gained California.
- A treaty between Mexico and the United States was signed in February 1848, putting an end to the Mexican War and giving the United States control of a sizable area of the Southwest, including modern-day California.