Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.

[EX Q]: Lured by the promise of increased federal revenues from the newly discovered gold, the United States Congress admitted California as the 31st state of the Union in 1850.
[EX A]: The United States Congress admitted California as the 31st state of the Union in 1850.

[EX Q]: Tate, now in private practice in Marion, was hired as the program's first director in 1972 after a Marion-based community action program secured grant money to establish the Smyth-Bland Legal Aid Society.
[EX A]: Tate was hired as the program's first director in 1972 after a community action program secured grant money to establish the Legal Aid Society.

[EX Q]: "Since bastard (the only equivalent male counterpart to whore ) is listed rather benignly under the heading, Family, we find under rogue (the sole alternative to bastard ) sixty-eight equivalents, including drumble, scroyle, and varletto."
[EX A]:
"Since bastard is listed rather benignly under the heading, Family, we find under rogue sixty-eight equivalents."