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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]
A History of New York State. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801401183. LCCN 67020587.. Fox, Dixon Ryan. The decline of aristocracy in the politics of New York (1918) online. Ingalls, Robert P. Herbert H. Lehman and New York's Little New Deal (1975) on 1930s online; Kammen, Michael (1996) [1975]. Colonial New York: a ...
New York enacted its constitution in 1777 and was the eleventh state to ratify the United States Constitution, on July 26, 1788. It is the fourth most populous state. It is the fourth most populous state.
This territory was also claimed by New York. The resulting dispute led to the rise of the Green Mountain Boys and the later establishment of the Vermont Republic. New Hampshire's claim upon the land was extinguished in 1764 by royal order of George III, and on March 6, 1790, the state of New York ceded its claim to Vermont for 30,000 Spanish ...
Among New York state's population of 19.5 million, 11 million, or 56 percent, are in New York City or Long Island. New York was the most populous state in the U.S. from the 1810s until 1962. As of 2024, it is the nation's fourth-most populous state behind California, Texas, and Florida. Growth has been distributed unevenly.
New York: 14 Franklin Pierce New Hampshire: 15 James Buchanan Pennsylvania: 16 Abraham Lincoln Illinois: 17 Andrew Johnson Tennessee: 18 Ulysses S. Grant Illinois: 19 Rutherford B. Hayes Ohio: 20 James A. Garfield Ohio: 21 Chester A. Arthur New York: 22, 24 Grover Cleveland New York: 23 Benjamin Harrison Indiana: 25 William McKinley Ohio: 26 ...
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New York was one of the original Thirteen Colonies on the east coast of North America, and was admitted as a state on July 26, 1788. Prior to declaring its independence, New York was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain, which it in turn obtained from the Dutch as the colony of New Netherland; see the list of colonial governors and the list of directors-general of New Netherland for the ...