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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]
The Admission to the Union Clause forbids the creation of new states from parts of existing states without the consent of all of the affected states and that of Congress. The primary intent of the caveat was to give the four Eastern States that still had western land claims (Connecticut, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia) a veto over ...
In Wheeling, the added conditions required another constitutional convention and popular referendum. Statehood was achieved on June 20, 1863 as West Virginia was admitted as the 35th state in the Union and an additional star was added to the American flag a few weeks later on Independence Day on the Fourth of July.
Colony of Virginia: Admitted to the Union: June 25, 1788 (10th) Capital: ... Virginia, officially the ... which created the state's highest recorded one-day snowfall ...
The Virginia Convention of 1776. Da Capo Press, NY. ISBN 978-1-4290-1760-2. Heinemann, Ronald L. (2008). Old Dominion, New Commonwealth: a history of Virginia, 1607-2007. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-2769-5. Pulliam, David Loyd (1901). The Constitutional Conventions of Virginia from the foundation of the Commonwealth to the ...
Lands south of the Ohio River constituted Kentucky County, Virginia, admitted to the union as the state of Kentucky in 1792. The area included more than 300,000 square miles (780,000 km 2) and comprised about 1/3 of the land area of the United States at the time of its creation.
Showdown in Virginia: the 1861 Convention and the fate of the Union. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-2964-4. Heinemann, Ronald L. (2008). Old Dominion, New Commonwealth: a history of Virginia, 1607–2007. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-2769-5. Wallenstein, Peter (2007). Cradle of America: a history of Virginia ...
Virginia (1) Vacant Virginia re-admitted to the Union John F. Lewis (R) January 26, 1870 Virginia (2) John W. Johnston (D) Mississippi (1) Vacant Mississippi re-admitted to the Union Adelbert Ames (R) February 23, 1870 Mississippi (2) Hiram R Revels (R) Texas (1) Vacant Texas re-admitted to the Union James W. Flanagan (R) March 30, 1870 Texas (2)