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Ohio counties in 1802. The Enabling Act of 1802 was passed on April 30, 1802, by the Seventh Congress of the United States. This act authorized the residents of the eastern portion of the Northwest Territory to form the state of Ohio and join the U.S. on an equal footing with the other states. In doing so it also established the precedent and ...
The act required the people of Ohio to elect a delegate for each 1,200 people to attend a constitutional convention. These delegates would meet in Chillicothe on November 1, 1802, and would decide by majority vote whether or not to form a constitution and state government, and, if so, either provide for the election of representatives for a ...
This is the same constitution under which the state of Ohio operates. The later "constitutions" were viewed as such, but in reality were large-scale revisions. [5]: 483 Two key issues debated at the convention were African American suffrage and prohibition of alcohol. Delegates rejected proposals to allow Black suffrage in the state.
He served in the Territorial House of Representatives from 1799 to 1803 and served as a Ross county delegate to the State Constitutional Convention in 1802. [3] He was a leader of the Chillicothe Junto, a group of Chillicothe Democratic-Republican politicians who brought about the admission of Ohio as a state in 1803 and largely controlled its politics for some years thereafter.
May 6: A state Constitutional Convention is convened in Columbus. [3] A proposal to remove both "white" and "male" from the legal description of a voter in the constitution fails by a large margin. [4] 1851. The Ohio Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio had Sojourner Truth as a speaker on African-American women and equality. [2] 1852
The first time Ohio and Michigan nearly came to blows wasn't on the gridiron, as it turns out, but on a battlefield. One of the most heated rivalries in college football dates back to the 1800s ...
Voter registration will close Monday for an election on whether to make it more difficult to amend Ohio's constitution, the results of which could have immediate consequences for an abortion ...
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