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Apr 15, 2016 · With Washington, D.C.'s mayor calling for a vote on statehood, it begs the question, why wasn't the it made a state in the first place?
- After Reconstruction, Congress Abolishes D.C.’s Government
- Civil Rights Era Brings Change
- Could D.C. Become The 51st State?
Washington, D.C. is the ancestral home of the Nacotchtank people, also known as Anacostans. After British colonists drove them out of their land, it became part of Maryland and Virginia. In 1790, both of these states ceded the territory to establish the District of Columbia as the capitalof the United States. At the time there were about 3,000 peop...
The 1870s system that denied D.C. residents the right vote for their own local government—as well as the congressional members and president who oversaw that government—stayed in place for nearly a century. During that time, D.C.’s Black population grew. In 1957, D.C. became the nation’s first predominantly-Black city. In 1970, the Black population...
Since 1980, D.C. has advocated for congressional representation through statehood. Activists and politicians have connected D.C.’s fight for representation to similar struggles in the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa. Like D.C. residents in 1960, the U.S. citizens who li...
- Becky Little
Jul 9, 2020 · On June 26, 2020, the House of Representatives passed a bill called “H.R. 51” that would make Washington, D.C. the 51st state. Though the bill will likely not pass the Senate, the fact that...
Jun 26, 2020 · Well, when the District of Columbia was established 230 years ago by Congress, it was set up to be a unique entity, not to be part of any state. Lisa Desjardins: Roger Pilon is a constitutional...
- Lisa Desjardins
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Mar 22, 2021 · But the bill raises question: Why didn't the nation's founders make Washington, D.C., a state in the first place? When they decided to create a new national capital, why did they choose to deny residents the same representation in the national government that the rest of the nation's citizens have?
Here are three key reasons why DC is not a state: The United States government didn’t want Congress members from DC to have excess power or influence. The establishment of DC was designed to create a neutral place for governmental operations without having one state favored over the other.
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The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) is a public historically black land-grant university in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1851 and is the only public university in the city. UDC is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund .
