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1855 J. H. Colton Company map of Virginia that predates the West Virginia partition by seven years.. Numerous state partition proposals have been put forward since the 1776 establishment of the United States that would partition an existing U.S. state or states so that a particular region might either join another state or create a new state.
Pages in category "Proposed states and territories of the United States" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This is a list of proposed state mergers, including both current and historical proposals originating from sovereign states or organizations.The entities listed below differ from separatist movements in that they would form as a merger or union of two or more existing states, territories, colonies or other regions, becoming either a federation, confederation or other type of unified sovereign ...
51st state, possible new states in the United States; List of U.S. state partition proposals; New states of Germany, five German states recreated in 1990; List of proposed states of Australia; List of proposed provinces and territories of Canada; List of proposed states and territories of India
New Jersey Senate New Jersey General Assembly: 1956 New York 4: Laura Gillen (D) Yes Defeated Anthony D'Esposito (R) Town Supervisor of Hempstead: 1969 New York 16: George Latimer (D) No Defeated Jamaal Bowman (D) in a primary: Westchester County Executive New York State Senate New York State Assembly Westchester County Board of Legislators ...
Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1: New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
The United States Department of the Interior had approved a $300,000 grant for decolonization education, Edward Alvarez told the United Nations Pacific Regional Seminar in May 2016. "We are hopeful that this might indicate a shift in [United States] policy to its Non-Self-Governing Territories such as Guam, where they will be more willing to ...
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) 1783: 892,135: 2,310,619----- Annexation of the Vermont Republic: 1791: 9,616: 24,905----- Louisiana ...