The Organic Act of 1884, also known as the Edmunds–Tucker Act, was an act of Congress that established organized territories (Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming) and provided mechanisms to grant statehood to federal territories when conditions were met. The act set the minimum requirements for statehood, which included a population of at least 60,000 people, and gave the president of the United States the authority to divide these territories into smaller ones. The purpose of the act was to establish a uniform and consistent set of laws and regulations for the governance of these territories, as well as to facilitate their eventual admission to the Union as states.