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An enlargeable map of the United States after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 An enlargeable map of the United States after the Anglo-American Convention of 1818 An enlargeable map of the United States after the Dakota Organic Act of 1861 An enlargeable map of the United States after the Wyoming Organic Act of 1868 An enlargeable map of the United States after South Dakota statehood in 1889 An ...
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]
The current-dollar gross state product of South Dakota was $39.8 billion as of 2010, the fifth-smallest total state output in the U.S. [132] The per capita personal income was $38,865 in 2010, ranked 25th in the U.S., [133] and 12.5% of the population was below the poverty line in 2008. [134]
The Territory of Dakota was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, [1] until November 2, 1889, when the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North and South Dakota.
Accession Date Area (sq.mi.) Area (km 2.) Cost in dollars Original territory of the Thirteen States (western lands, roughly between the Mississippi River and Appalachian Mountains, were claimed but not administered by the states and were all ceded to the federal government or new states by 1802)
South Dakota is the 17th most extensive, but the 5th least populous, and the 5th least densely populated of the 50 United States. Once the southern portion of the Dakota Territory , South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889, simultaneously with North Dakota .
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
Detail from a map drawn by the Lewis and Clark Expedition, showing much of what would become eastern and central South Dakota. In 1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon for $11,000,000. [41]