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Enabling Act of 1802, authorizing residents of the eastern portion of the Northwest Territory to form the state of Ohio. Missouri Compromise, 1820 federal statute enabling the admission of Missouri (a slave state) and Maine (a free state) into the Union. Toledo War, 1835–36 boundary dispute between Ohio and the adjoining Michigan Territory ...
Below is a list of all 50 states in the order they joined the Union. The first 13 became states in July 1776 when they agreed to the United States Declaration of Independence . Each of those 13 agreed to the first U.S. constitution , called the Articles of Confederation , which formed the first Union of States between 1777 and 1781. [1]
Admission to the Union is provided by the Admissions Clause of the United States Constitution in Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1, which authorizes the United States Congress to admit new states into the Union beyond the thirteen states that already existed when the Constitution came into effect. The Constitution went into effect on June 21 ...
The original states joined the United States upon ratification of the U.S. Constitution; dates of ratification are marked with an asterisk. All others are dates of admission to the union. state. date of admission. Delaware. December 7, 1787*. Pennsylvania. December 12, 1787*. New Jersey.
Jul 8, 2019 · By Robert Longley. Between Dec. 7, 1787, and May 29, 1790, each of the colonies became states. Since that time, 37 additional states have been added. Not all states were territories before they became states, however. Three of the new states were independent sovereign states at the time they were admitted (Vermont, Texas, and California), and ...
StateStatus Before StatehoodDate Admitted To The Union1DelawareColony2Colony3New JerseyColony4GeorgiaColonyJan 6, 2022 · The first state to be settled by Europeans at all would be Florida; St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest continuous European settlement in the U.S. However, the states of today are legally distinct from the colonies. The first state in the sense of "one of the current 50 states of America" would be the first one to enter into the Union by ...
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