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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]
Since then, 37 states have been admitted into the Union. Each new state has been admitted on an equal footing with those already in existence. [2] Of the 37 states admitted to the Union by Congress, all but six have been established within existing U.S. organized incorporated territories. A state that was so created might encompass all or part ...
An official statehood date for Ohio was not set until 1953, when the 83rd Congress passed a Joint resolution "for admitting the State of Ohio into the Union", (Pub. L. 83–204, 67 Stat. 407, enacted August 7, 1953) which designated March 1, 1803, as that date.
This is a list of U.S. states by date of statehood, that is, the date when each U.S. state joined the Union. This list is misleading in two ways. 1. New York became an independent state on July 9, 1776 and enacted its constitution in 1777. New York then ratified the US constitution on Saturday, July 26, 1788. Its statehood was therefore ...
Congress prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territory which presaged Ohio and the five states of the Territory entering the Union as free states. Ohio's population increased rapidly after United States victory in the Northwest Indian Wars brought peace to the Ohio frontier. On March 1, 1803, Ohio was admitted to the union as the 17th state.
March 15: Maine is admitted to the Union as a free state. The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is founded in New York City. [86] 1821: August 10: Missouri is admitted to the Union as a slave state. Its legislature soon passes a law excluding free blacks and mulattoes from the state in violation of a Congressional condition to its ...
Ohio at-large: Ohio is considered to have been admitted to the Union near the end of the 7th Congress, [b] but did not elect representatives until the 8th Congress. For this reason, Ohio is considered to have had a vacant seat in the House and two vacant seats in the Senate in the 7th Congress. [3] New seat. New member elected. Democratic ...
On April 30, 1802, Congress passed an enabling act for Ohio that authorized the residents of the eastern portion of the Northwest Territory to form a state constitution and government, and be admitted to the Union. [32] When Ohio was admitted as the 17th state on March 1, 1803, the land not included in the new state, including the gore, became ...