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The territory was organized by Act of Congress on February 28, 1861, out of lands previously part of the Kansas, Nebraska, Utah, and New Mexico territories. Technically the territory was open to slavery under the Dred Scott of 1857, but the question was rendered moot by the impending American Civil War and the majority pro-Union sentiment in the territory.

The name "Colorado" had been previously suggested in 1850 by Senator Henry S. FooteHenry Stuart Foote ( February 28, 1804 May 19, 1880) was a United States Senator from Mississippi from 1847 to 1852 and Governor of Mississippi from 1852 to 1854. He was born in Fauquier County, Virginia. He pursued classical studies and graduated from Wa as a name for a state to have been created out of present-day California south of 36° 30'.

The territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Colorado on August 1Some entries on this page have been duplicates from June 28. The correct dates for such events need to be determined. August 1st is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. Events 527 Justinian I, 1876.

See also

• Pike's Peak CountryPike's Peak Country was the common name for what is now Colorado before the land was ever organized or widely settled. It was so named because Pikes Peak rose so starkly out of otherwise pancake-flat Kansas prairie—visible for miles around, it became the
• Jefferson TerritoryJefferson Territory was an extralegal, unrecognized territory of the United States that existed from 1859 until 1860 or 1861, just prior to the Congressional organization of Colorado Territory. The government of the territory, while democratically elected
• Historic regions of the United StatesThese are historic regions of the United States meaning regions that were legal entities in the past, or which the average modern American would no longer immediately recognize as a regional description. Colonial Areas Not Among the Original 13 Main artic

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