For 10 points, name this process that added the 49th star to the American flag.
An action that indirectly aided this cause was when 203 families were chosen from the Midwest to settle in the Matanuska Valley due to their familiarity with cold. Entrepreneur Austin Lathrop opposed this action because he believed it would harm business by increasing the tax base. James Wickersham used the Ballinger-Pinchot affair to drum up support for this process, leading to a second Organic Act for the (*) territory in question. A very similar action occurred to the south in the same year, 1959, to balance Republicans and Democrats in Congress. For 10 points, name this process that added the 49th star to the American flag.
An action that indirectly aided this cause was when 203 families were chosen from the Midwest to settle in the Matanuska Valley due to their familiarity with cold.
Alaskan statehood (accept equivalents)