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Missouri Compromise, 1820 federal statute enabling the admission of Missouri (a slave state) and Maine (a free state) into the Union. Toledo War, 1835–36 boundary dispute between Ohio and the adjoining Michigan Territory, which delayed Michigan's admission to the Union. Texas annexation, the 1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into ...
The 11th Article authorized Congress to admit new states to the Union provided nine states consented. Under the Articles, each state cast one vote on each proposed measure in Congress. During this period, the Confederation Congress enacted two ordinances governing the admission of new states into the Union.
College admissions in the United States refers to the process of applying for entrance to institutions of higher education for undergraduate study at one of the nation's colleges or universities. [1][2] For those who intend to attend college immediately after high school, the college search usually begins in the eleventh grade [3] with most ...
Eleven-plus. The eleven-plus (11+) is a standardised examination administered to some students in England and Northern Ireland in their last year of primary education, which governs admission to grammar schools and other secondary schools which use academic selection. The name derives from the age group for secondary entry: 11–12 years.
The Common Application (more commonly known as the Common App) is an undergraduate college admission application that applicants may use to apply to over 1,000 member colleges, universities, and community colleges in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, as well as in Canada, Australia, China, Japan, and many European countries. [1 ...
An Act for the Admission of the State of California into the Union was the formal title given to the Congressional legislation passed by the 31st Congress, and signed by President Millard Fillmore on September 9, 1850, which admitted California as the 31st state to the Union.
XIV; Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181 (2023), is a landmark decision [1][2][3][4] of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the court held that race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions processes violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. [5]
www.act.org. The ACT (/ eɪ siː tiː /; originally an abbreviation of American College Testing) [10] is a standardized test used for college admissions in the United States. It is administered by ACT, a nonprofit organization of the same name. [10] The ACT test covers four academic skill areas: English, mathematics, reading, and scientific ...