Why was Washington Territory created in the early 1850s? to establish the fur trade and logging industry in the Pacific Northwest
to create a government for settlers who lived north of the Columbia River
to fulfill an agreement between Britain and the United States to end joint control
to open up new territory to white settlers and encourage them to move into the area

Lane argued that the small population of the proposed territory should not be a deterrent and that the economic benefit from commerce at Puget Sound would easily justify the new territory. Congress passed the bill creating Washington Territory on March 2, 1853, changing the proposed name of Columbia to Washington to avoid confusion with the federal District of Columbia

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after the senate and the house passed different bills and deadlock threatened, a compromise bill was worked out with the following provisions: (1) missouri was admitted as a slave state and maine (formerly part of massachusetts).

state law

most seat belt laws in the united states are left to the states. however, the first seat belt law was a federal law.