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Dec 22, 2015 · Virginia's legislature consented to Kentucky's admission as a separate state as early as 1788, when the Articles of Confederation were still in effect. Congress's deliberations on whether to admit Kentucky were interrupted by a notification that New Hampshire had become the ninth state to ratify the new Constitution, which then went into effect ...
Oct 27, 2023 · Eventually, Virginia gave its approval, the 10th constitutional convention succeeded, and on June 1, 1792, Kentucky became the 15th of the United States of America and the first state west of the Appalachian Mountains to be admitted to the union.
Oct 6, 2024 · Kentucky was still part of Virginia when it became a state in 1788, but Kentuckians began a separatist movement to break out as its own state.
A series of county divisions of Virginia Colony west of the Appalachians resulted in Kentucke County in 1777, the District of Kentucky, and finally its admission into the Union as the 15th state on June 1, 1792.
On June 1,1792, Kentucky became the fifteenth state in the new nation and the first west of the Alleghenies. Lowell Harrison reviews the tangled and protracted process by which Virginia's westernmost territory achieved statehood.
- Lowell H. Harrison
- 1992
Kentucky became a state nine years after the American Revolutionary War, finally breaking free from the state of Virginia. Kentuckians of the mid-to-late 1780s found themselves in a troubling spot.
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Jun 1, 2023 · In 1776, the colony of Virginia declared its independence, taking with it what is now known as Kentucky. However, as the population of the region increased, so did the desire for separate statehood.
