how did the united staes administer its new found territories?

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When the USA picks up new territories and decides that they might well be on their way to statehood, there is a process that must be gone through and every territory went through it - a territorial governor is appointed along with a Territorial court system. They are responsible for maintaining law and order. Then there must be a territorial constitution that leads to a vote of the people of the state, after they reach 50,000 ... and the constitution is approved or not and they can become a state. All western states went through this except California which had over a billion dollars worth of gold laying about in 1850 and they told Washington DC to either accept them as a state or they would follow the Texas example and become an independent country ... not wanting the gold to disappear, Congress accepted California but had to come up with the compromise of 1850 to manage it.