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The gild in which the original 13 states ratified the 1787 Constitution, then the order in which the others were admitted to the Union

A state of the United states of america is one of the l constituent entities that shares its sovereignty with the federal government. Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside, due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government.^[1] Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia use the term commonwealth rather than state in their full official names.

States are the primary subdivisions of the United states of america. They possess all powers non granted to the federal government, nor prohibited to them by the Constitution of the United states. In general, state governments have the power to regulate issues of local concern, such as: regulating intrastate commerce, running elections, creating local governments, public school policy, and non-federal road structure and maintenance. Each state has its own constitution grounded in republican principles, and authorities consisting of executive, legislative, and judicial branches.^[2]

All states and their residents are represented in the federal Congress, a bicameral legislature consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Each state is represented by two Senators, and at least one Representative, while the size of a state's House delegation depends on its full population, equally determined by the nigh recent constitutionally mandated decennial census.^[3] Additionally, each country is entitled to select a number of electors to vote in the Balloter College, the body that elects the President of the U.s. and Vice President of the Usa, equal to the total of Representatives and Senators in Congress from that country.^[4]

Article Iv, Section 3, Clause 1 of the Constitution grants to Congress the authority to admit new states into the Union. Since the institution of the United States in 1776, the number of states has expanded from the original 13 to 50. Each new land has been admitted on an equal footing with the existing states.^[5]

The following tabular array is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon like-minded to the U.s.a. Declaration of Independence, and each joined the commencement Marriage of states betwixt 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution.^{[half dozen]} (A dissever table is included below showing AoC ratification dates.) These states are presented in the society in which each ratified the 1787 Constitution and joined the others in the new (and current) federal government. The appointment of admission listed for each subsequent state is the official date set by Act of Congress.^[a]

Listing of U.S. states [edit]

Land		Date (admitted or ratified)	Formed from
1	Delaware	Dec 7, 1787 [8] (ratified)	Colony of Delaware[b]
2	Pennsylvania	Dec 12, 1787 [10] (ratified)	Proprietary Province of Pennsylvania
three	New Jersey	December eighteen, 1787 [11] (ratified)	Crown Colony of New Jersey
iv	Georgia	January 2, 1788 [eight] (ratified)	Crown Colony of Georgia
5	Connecticut	Jan nine, 1788 [12] (ratified)	Crown Colony of Connecticut
6	Massachusetts	Feb half dozen, 1788 [8] (ratified)	Crown Colony of Massachusetts Bay
7	Maryland	April 28, 1788 [8] (ratified)	Proprietary Province of Maryland
eight	Due south Carolina	May 23, 1788 [8] (ratified)	Crown Colony of Southward Carolina
nine	New Hampshire	June 21, 1788 [8] (ratified)	Crown Colony of New Hampshire
x	Virginia	June 25, 1788 [8] (ratified)	Crown Colony and Dominion of Virginia
xi	New York	July 26, 1788 [13] (ratified)	Crown Colony of New York
12	Northward Carolina	November 21, 1789 [14] (ratified)	Crown Colony of N Carolina
13	Rhode Island	May 29, 1790 [8] (ratified)	Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
14	Vermont	March 4, 1791 [15] (admitted)	Vermont Democracy[c]
fifteen	Kentucky	June one, 1792 [xvi] (admitted)	Virginia (nine counties in its District of Kentucky[d])
16	Tennessee	June i, 1796 [xviii] (admitted)	Southwest Territory
17	Ohio	March 1, 1803 [xix] [due east] (admitted)	Northwest Territory (role)
eighteen	Louisiana	April 30, 1812 [21] (admitted)	Territory of Orleans
nineteen	Indiana	December eleven, 1816 (admitted)	Indiana Territory
xx	Mississippi	Dec ten, 1817 [22] (admitted)	Mississippi Territory
21	Illinois	December 3, 1818 [23] (admitted)	Illinois Territory (office)
22	Alabama	December 14, 1819 [24] (admitted)	Alabama Territory
23	Maine	March 15, 1820 [25] (admitted)	Massachusetts (District of Maine[f])
24	Missouri	August x, 1821 [26] (admitted)	Missouri Territory (role)
25	Arkansas	June 15, 1836 [27] (admitted)	Arkansas Territory
26	Michigan	Jan 26, 1837 [28] (admitted)	Michigan Territory
27	Florida	March 3, 1845 (admitted)	Florida Territory
28	Texas	December 29, 1845 [29] (admitted)	Republic of Texas
29	Iowa	December 28, 1846 (admitted)	Iowa Territory (function)
xxx	Wisconsin	May 29, 1848 [30] (admitted)	Wisconsin Territory (part)
31	California	September 9, 1850 [31] (admitted)	Unorganized territory / Mexican Cession (part)[k]
32	Minnesota	May 11, 1858 [32] (admitted)	Minnesota Territory (part)
33	Oregon	February 14, 1859 (admitted)	Oregon Territory (office)
34	Kansas	January 29, 1861 [33] (admitted)	Kansas Territory (part)
35	Due west Virginia	June 20, 1863 [34] (admitted)	Virginia (50 Trans-Allegheny region counties[h])
36	Nevada	October 31, 1864 (admitted)	Nevada Territory
37	Nebraska	March one, 1867 (admitted)	Nebraska Territory
38	Colorado	August ane, 1876 [37] (admitted)	Colorado Territory
39	North Dakota	Nov 2, 1889 [38] [i] (admitted)	Dakota Territory (office)
40	South Dakota	November 2, 1889 [38] [i] (admitted)	Dakota Territory (part)
41	Montana	November 8, 1889 [41] (admitted)	Montana Territory
42	Washington	Nov 11, 1889 [42] (admitted)	Washington Territory
43	Idaho	July three, 1890 (admitted)	Idaho Territory
44	Wyoming	July ten, 1890 (admitted)	Wyoming Territory
45	Utah	Jan four, 1896 [43] (admitted)	Utah Territory
46	Oklahoma	Nov sixteen, 1907 [44] (admitted)	Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory
47	New Mexico	January 6, 1912 (admitted)	New Mexico Territory
48	Arizona	February 14, 1912 (admitted)	Arizona Territory
49	Alaska	January 3, 1959 (admitted)	Territory of Alaska
fifty	Hawaii	August 21, 1959 (admitted)	Territory of Hawaii

Articles of Confederation ratification dates [edit]

The 2d Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation for ratification by the private states on November 15, 1777. The Articles of Confederation came into force on March 1, 1781, after being ratified by all 13 states. On March 4, 1789, the general government nether the Articles was replaced with the federal government under the present Constitution.^[45]

State		Date
1	Virginia	December 16, 1777
2	S Carolina	February 5, 1778
3	New York	February 6, 1778
iv	Rhode Island	February ix, 1778
5	Connecticut	February 12, 1778
vi	Georgia	Feb 26, 1778
vii	New Hampshire	March 4, 1778
eight	Pennsylvania	March five, 1778
9	Massachusetts	March 10, 1778
ten	North Carolina	April five, 1778
11	New Bailiwick of jersey	November xix, 1778
12	Delaware	February 1, 1779
13	Maryland	February 2, 1781

Encounter also [edit]

• Territorial evolution of the United States
• Enabling Human activity of 1802, authorizing residents of the eastern portion of the Northwest Territory to course the country of Ohio
• Missouri Compromise, 1820 federal statute enabling the admission of Missouri (a slave state) and Maine (a free state) into the Spousal relationship
• Toledo State of war, 1835–36 boundary dispute betwixt Ohio and the adjoining Michigan Territory, which delayed Michigan'south admission to the Union
• Texas annexation, the 1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States every bit a country in the Union

• Legal condition of Texas

• Compromise of 1850, a package of congressional acts, one of which provided for the access of California to the Matrimony
• Bleeding Kansas, a series of violent conflicts in Kansas Territory involving anti-slavery and pro-slavery factions in the years preceding Kansas statehood, 1854–61
• Enabling Act of 1889, authorizing residents of Dakota, Montana, and Washington territories to form land governments (Dakota to be divided into two states) and to proceeds admission to the Union
• Oklahoma Enabling Act, authorizing residents of the Oklahoma and Indian territories, and the New Mexico and Arizona territories, to form 2 state governments equally steps to gaining admission to the Spousal relationship
• Alaska Statehood Deed, admitting Alaska every bit a state in the Matrimony equally of January three, 1959

• Legal condition of Alaska

• Hawaii Admission Act, admitting Hawaii as a country in the Matrimony equally of Baronial 21, 1959

• Legal status of Hawaii

• List of states and territories of the Us
• Federalism in the United States
• Proposals for a 51st state

Notes [edit]

1. ^ This list does not business relationship for the secession of 11 states (Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas) during the Civil War to form the Confederate States of America, nor for the subsequent restoration of those states to the Union, or each country'due south "readmission to representation in Congress" after the war, every bit the federal government does non requite legal recognition to their having left the Wedlock. Also, the Constitution is silent on the question of whether states have the ability to secede from the Union, but the Supreme Court held that a state cannot unilaterally do so in Texas v. White (1869).^[7]
2. ^ Besides known every bit 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 Great britain and establishing the iii counties every bit an independent state under the authority of "the Regime of the Counties of New Castle, Kent and Sussex Upon Delaware".^[nine]
3. ^ Between 1749 and 1764 the provincial governor of New Hampshire, Benning Wentworth, issued approximately 135 grants for unoccupied land claimed past New Hampshire west of the Connecticut River (in what is today southern Vermont), territory that was also claimed by New York. The resulting "New Hampshire Grants" dispute led to the rise of the Green Mountain Boys, and the later establishment of the Vermont Republic. New Hampshire's claim upon the country was extinguished in 1764 by royal lodge of George Three, and in 1790 the State of New York ceded its land claim to Vermont for thirty,000 dollars.
4. ^ The Virginia Full general Assembly adopted legislation on December eighteen, 1789, separating its "Commune of Kentucky" from the rest of the State and approving its statehood.^[17]
5. ^ The verbal appointment upon which Ohio became a land is unclear. On April xxx, 1802, the 7th Congress had passed an deed "authorizing the inhabitants of Ohio to form a Constitution and state government, and admission of Ohio into the Union" (Sess. 1, ch. 40, 2 Stat. 173). On February nineteen, 1803, the same Congress passed an act "providing for the execution of the laws of the United states of america in the State of Ohio" (Sess. 2, ch. 7, 2 Stat. 201). Neither act, withal, set a formal engagement of statehood. An official statehood engagement for Ohio was not set until 1953, when the 83rd Congress passed a Joint resolution "for admitting the Country of Ohio into the Matrimony", (Pub.L. 83–204, 67 Stat. 407, enacted Baronial 7, 1953) which designated March i, 1803, equally that date.^[xx]
6. ^ The Massachusetts General Court passed enabling legislation on June xix, 1819, separating the "District of Maine" from the residue of the Land (an action approved by the voters in Maine on July 19, 1819, past 17,001 to 7,132); then, on February 25, 1820, passed a follow-upwards measure out officially accepting the fact of Maine'south imminent statehood.^[17]
7. ^ Nigh of the region ceded by Mexico to the United States in 1848, post-obit the Conduct Flag Revolt and the Mexican–American War, had been the Mexican Department of Alta California. The Deed of Congress establishing California every bit the 31st state was part of the Compromise of 1850.
8. ^ On May xiii, 1862, the Full general Assembly of the Restored Government of Virginia passed an deed granting permission for cosmos of Due west Virginia.^[35] Afterwards, by its ruling in Virginia five. Due west Virginia (1871), the Supreme Court implicitly affirmed that the breakaway Virginia counties did have the proper consents necessary to go a separate land.^[36]
9. ^ ^{a b} Brought into existence within moments of each other on the same day, North and South Dakota are the nation'due south only twin-born states. Before signing the statehood papers, President Benjamin Harrison shuffled the papers so that no one would know which became a state first. By custom, North Dakota is commonly recognized as the 39th country and Due south Dakota equally the 40th, as "due north" precedes "s" in the alphabet.^{[39] [40]}

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External links [edit]

• "U.S. States Videos". History.com.
• "Dates of statehood". 50states.com.

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