Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the right order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. No version of the origin of California’s name has been fully accepted, but there is wide support for the contention that it derived from an early 16th-century Spanish novel.
B. California is a constituent state of the United States of America.
C. It was admitted as the 31st state of the union on 9 September 1850 and by the early 1960s it was the most populous U.S. state.
D. The influence of the Spanish settlers of the 18th and 19th centuries is evident in California’s architecture and place-names.