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The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]
- Delaware. December 7, 1787. (ratified)
- Pennsylvania. December 12, 1787. (ratified)
- New Jersey. December 18, 1787. (ratified)
- Georgia. January 2, 1788. (ratified)
Beginning in the 1980s, the state entered into international economic and resource cooperation treaties and organizations with other Midwestern states, New York, Pennsylvania, Ontario, and Quebec, including the Great Lakes Charter, Great Lakes Compact, and the Council of Great Lakes Governors.
New York was the largest city proper, but city limits are essentially arbitrary. In today's terms, should we think about Boston and Cambridge as different cities. In terms of 1790, should we think of Northern Liberties and Southwark as separate cities from Philadelphia?
List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union. 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 ...
List of US states in order of admission to statehood. You can sort by alphabetical order by state or see the list by the date each state was admitted to the union.
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Sep 29, 2017 · The state's name -- Ohio -- comes from the Iroquois word for "great river," a reference to the Ohio River to the south. The capital of Ohio is Columbus, but two other cities -- Chillicothe and Zanesville -- served as the state's seats of government in the early 1800s.
