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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]
1855 Michigan State University was founded as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, becoming the first land grant university in the United States. 1861-1865 Michigan sent 90,000 men, nearly a quarter of the state's male population, to fight in state regiments in the Civil War. 1871 Fires burned Manistee and Holland.
In the 1820s and 1830s immigrants from New England began moving to what is now Michigan in large numbers (though there was a trickle of New England settlers who arrived before this date). [35] These were " Yankee " settlers, that is to say they were descended from the English Puritans who settled New England during the colonial era. [ 36 ]
15th Michigan Legislature [Wikidata] January 7, 1850 April 2, 1850 November 1849 16th Michigan Legislature [Wikidata] February 5, 1851 June 28, 1851 November 5, 1850 Michigan State Constitution of 1850 [1] 17th Michigan Legislature [Wikidata] January 5, 1853 February 14, 1853 November 2, 1852 18th Michigan Legislature [Wikidata] January 3, 1855
On November 1, 1935, the U.S. Post Office issued a commemorative 3-cent stamp celebrating the 100th anniversary of Michigan statehood. Michigan's statehood, however, wasn't officially established until January 26, 1837, but since the campaign for statehood actually began in 1835, Michigan chose to hold its centennial celebration in 1935, the ...
The people of the Territory of Michigan voted on October 1, 1832, to seek admission to the United States. [1] A census in 1834 verified that the territory had 87,273 white inhabitants, [2] well above the requirement for statehood of 60,000 defined by the Northwest Ordinance.
History of Michigan; List of years in the United States This page was last edited on 12 May 2024, at 16:55 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
With the statehood of Arkansas in 1836, the number of slave states grew to 13, but the statehood of Michigan in 1837 maintained the balance between slave and free states. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787, passed just before the U.S. Constitution was ratified, had prohibited slavery in the federal Northwest Territory.