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One of the main thoroughfares in Johnson City is named "State of Franklin Road" and passes by East Tennessee State University. [21] In law-school examinations in the U.S., a fictional "State of Franklin" is used as a placeholder name for a generic state, often the one in which the property of Blackacre is located. This way, variations in ...
The State of Frankland was renamed the State of Franklin, to encourage Benjamin Franklin to endorse the state, though he declined. [54] Unofficial change: September 13, 1786 Connecticut surrendered its western claim to the federal government except for its Western Reserve, though it is unclear how much control they held over the ceded region ...
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 Act of March 1, 1800 [7] provided for dividing quarter townships into lots of 100 acres (0.40 km 2) each, 880 yards in width by 550 yards in height. [8] On March 3, 1803, the unclaimed land was divided into one mile (1.6 km) square sections and into half sections, and sold as essentially Congress Lands by the Chillicothe and Zanesville land ...
Thomas Jefferson (April 13 [O.S. April 2], 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, planter, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. [6]
April – Voting begins in the 1800 United States presidential election; it will last until October. The result is not announced until February 1801. April 24 – The U.S. Library of Congress is founded. May 7 – Indiana Territory is formed by an Act of Congress as the first new territory created from the lands of the Northwest Territory.
The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 (signed by President Abraham Lincoln) was the first major land grant specifically for the transcontinental railroad. This act provided surveyed, public lands for a railroad right-of-way to build rail systems, and millions of acres to raise the capital needed to build and maintain the future railways.
Franklin was governor of Pennsylvania from 1785 to 1788 and was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. [280] John Jay was a New York delegate to the First and Second Continental Congress and in 1778 was elected Congress president. In 1782, he was summoned to Paris by Franklin to help negotiate the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain.