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A mature frontier: the New Hampshire economy 1790–1850 Historical New Hampshire 24#1 (1969) 3–19. Squires, J. Duane. The Granite State of the United States: A History of New Hampshire from 1623 to the Present (1956) vol 1; Stackpole, Everett S. History of New Hampshire (4 vol 1916–1922) vol 4 online covers Civil War and late 19th century
The United States Constitution was ratified by New Hampshire on June 21, 1788, when New Hampshire became the ninth state to do so. [23] New Hampshire was a Jacksonian stronghold; the state sent Franklin Pierce to the White House in the election of 1852.
Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1 of the Constitution grants to Congress the authority to admit new states into the Union. Since the establishment of the United States in 1776, the number of states has expanded from the original 13 to 50. Each new state has been admitted on an equal footing with the existing states. [5]
The location of the state of New Hampshire in the United States of America. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. state of New Hampshire: New Hampshire – U.S. state in the New England region of the United States of America, named after the southern English county of Hampshire.
Five of the counties were created in 1769, when New Hampshire was still an English colony and not a state, during the first subdivision of the state into counties. The last counties created were Belknap County and Carroll County, in 1840. The majority of New Hampshire's counties were named for prominent British or American people or geographic ...
New Hampshire: Although New Hampshire doesn’t have a state income tax, its steep property taxes create a dramatic tax burden for house owners. Sometimes the absence of one tax doesn’t mean a ...
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 dollars. [22] Kentucky, admitted June 1, 1792, was set off from Virginia (previously its western District of Kentucky counties).
Republican lawmakers and governors in a handful of states, including Idaho, New Hampshire, Georgia, Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma have created DOGE task forces or new state legislature committees.