Editing Grover Cleveland (section)

===States admitted to the Union===
No new states were [[Admission to the Union|admitted to the Union]] during Cleveland's first term. On February 22, 1889, {{age in days|Feb 22, 1889|March 4, 1889}} days before leaving office, the [[50th United States Congress|50th Congress]] passed the [[Enabling Act of 1889]], authorizing [[North Dakota]], [[South Dakota]], [[Montana]], and [[Washington (state)|Washington]] to form state governments and to gain admission to the Union. All four officially became states in November 1889, during the first year of the [[Benjamin Harrison administration]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Today in History: November 11|url=http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov11.html|website=loc.gov|publisher=Library of Congress}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Today in History: November 2|url=http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov02.html|website=loc.gov|publisher=Library of Congress}}</ref> During Cleveland's second term, the [[53rd United States Congress]] passed an Enabling Act that permitted [[Utah]] to apply for statehood. Cleveland signed it on July 16, 1894.<ref>{{cite book |title=Monetary Policy in the United States: An Intellectual and Institutional History |last=Timberlake |first=Richard H. |year=1993 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-80384-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/monetarypolicyin0000timb/page/77 77] |url=https://archive.org/details/monetarypolicyin0000timb/page/77}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Struggle For Statehood Chronology|url=https://historytogo.utah.gov/struggle-statehood-chronology/|last=Thatcher|first=Linda |website=historytogo.utah.gov|year=2016|publisher=State of Utah|access-date=March 18, 2020}}</ref> Utah joined the Union as the 45th state on January 4, 1896.<ref>{{cite web|title=Struggle For Statehood Chronology|url=http://www.historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/statehood_and_the_progressive_era/struggleforstatehoodchronology.html|last=Thatcher|first=Linda|website=historytogo.utah.gov|date=2016|publisher=State of Utah}}</ref>