With the Gold Rush came a huge increase in population and a pressing need for civil government. In 1849, Californians sought statehood and, after heated debate in the U.S. Congress arising out of the slavery issue, California entered the Union as a free, nonslavery state by the Compromise of 1850.
The United States committed to a Cold War policy of mutual defense when it "(3) joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization <span>(NATO)" which contained the Soviets. </span>
To make laws for the goverment
