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  2. List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. History of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    The Pennsylvania State University was founded in 1855, and in 1863 the school became Pennsylvania's land-grant university under the terms of the Morrill Land-Grant Acts. Temple University in Philadelphia was founded in 1884 by Russell Conwell , originally as a night school for working-class citizens.

  4. Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Pennsylvania was founded in 1681 ... eastern and southeastern Pennsylvania. The Lenape's territory ended somewhere ... of the state from Ohio to New ...

  5. History of Ohio - Wikipedia

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    The history of Ohio as a state began when the Northwest Territory was divided in 1800, and the remainder reorganized for admission to the union on March 1, 1803, as the 17th state of the United States.

  6. Northwest Ordinance - Wikipedia

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    The first state created from the Northwest Territory was Ohio in 1803, and the remaining territory was renamed Indiana Territory. The other four states were Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A portion (about a third) of what later became Minnesota was also part of the territory.

  7. Territorial evolution of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The land recently ceded by North Carolina was organized as the Territory South of the River Ohio, commonly known as the Southwest Territory. [55] [76] May 29, 1790 Rhode Island became the thirteenth state to ratify the Constitution. [77] no change to map: December 6, 1790

  8. Northwest Territory - Wikipedia

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    The Northwest Territory included all the then-owned land of the United States west of Pennsylvania, east of the Mississippi River, and northwest of the Ohio River.It incorporated most of the former Ohio Country except a portion in western Pennsylvania, and eastern Illinois Country.

  9. State cessions - Wikipedia

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    The Treaty of Paris (1783) that ended the American Revolution established American sovereignty over the land between the Appalachians and the Mississippi; the jobs of determining how that land should be governed, and how the conflicting claims to it by several of the states should be resolved, were one of the first major tasks facing the new nation.