![]() Danville/Boyle County Convention and Visitors Bureau. ↑ "Constitution Square Historic Site".The Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of America's Founding (Volume 1: A-M). Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission. ↑ "Overview of Pennsylvania History - 1776-1861: Independence to the Civil War".Government Information Center, Delaware Department of State. The Articles of Confederation: An Interpretation of the Social-Constitutional History of the American Revolution, 1774–1781. Dates of statehood, via (includes notes, retrieved 19 January 2006).50 State Quarter Program Archived at the Wayback Machine from the United States Mint (including dates of statehood).↑ 8.0 8.1 Brought into existence within moments of each other on the same day, North and South Dakota are the nation's only twin-born states.North Dakota's proclamation was published first in the Statutes at Large, as it is first in alphabetical order. No one knows which state he signed into existence first. ↑ When President Benjamin Harrison signed the statehood proclamations for North and South Dakota he shuffled the papers on his desk and covered up all but the signature line of the documents.West Virginia (1871), the Supreme Court implicitly affirmed that the breakaway Virginia counties did have the proper consents necessary to become a separate state. ↑ On May 13, 1862, the General Assembly of the Restored Government of Virginia passed an act granting permission for creation of West Virginia.↑ The Massachusetts General Court passed enabling legislation on Jseparating the "District of Maine" from the rest of the State (an action approved by the voters in Maine on Jby 17,001 to 7,132) then, on February 25, 1820, passed a follow-up measure officially accepting the fact of Maine's imminent statehood.An official statehood date for Ohio was not set until 1953, when the 83rd Congress passed a Joint resolution "for admitting the State of Ohio into the Union", ( Pub.L. 201) Neither act, however, set a formal date of statehood. 173) On Februthe same Congress passed an act "providing for the execution of the laws of the United States in the State of Ohio." (Sess. On Apthe 7th Congress had passed an act "authorizing the inhabitants of Ohio to form a Constitution and state government, and admission of Ohio into the Union." (Sess. ↑ The exact date upon which Ohio became a state is unclear.↑ The Virginia General Assembly adopted legislation on Decemseparating its "District of Kentucky" from the rest of the State and approving its statehood.New Hampshire's claim upon the land was extinguished in 1764 by royal order of George III, and in 1790 the State of New York ceded its land claim to Vermont for 30,000 Dollars. The resulting " New Hampshire Grants" dispute led to the rise of the Green Mountain Boys, and the later establishment of the Vermont Republic. ↑ Between 17 the provincial governor of New Hampshire, Benning Wentworth, issued approximately 135 grants for unoccupied land claimed by New Hampshire west of the Connecticut River (in what is today southern Vermont), territory that was also claimed by New York.↑ Also known as the "Three Lower Counties Upon Delaware." Delaware became a state on June 15, 1776, when the Delaware Assembly formally adopted a resolution declaring an end to Delaware's status as a colony of Great Britain and establishing the three counties as an independent state under the authority of "the Government of the Counties of New Castle, Kent and Sussex Upon Delaware.".Virginia (Trans- Allegheny region counties ) Virginia (District of Kentucky: Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln counties ) List of u.s states and their order to statehood StateĬrown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations The date of admission listed for other states is the official date made by Act of Congress. These states are presented in the order each ratified the 1787 Constitution, thus joining the present federal Union of states. constitution, called the Articles of Confederation, which formed the first Union of states between 17. Each of those 13 agreed to the first U.S. The first 13 became states in July 1776 when they agreed to the United States Declaration of Independence. Below is a list of all 50 states in the order they joined the Union.
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