The original 13 colonies were a group of British territories in North America. They were founded in the 17th and 18th centuries and became The Thirteen Colonies in , when they declared independence. The colonies became states of the new nation in , when the ninth and final necessary state ratified the United States Constitution.
The date each state joined the Union is shown in the table below. Five states were added during the 20th century. Each state was formally accepted as a member of the Union once it ratified the Constitution. Each state has had a unique trajectory and a different reason for joining the Union.
From to , the United States entered an expansionist phase when 14 new states joined the Union, bringing the total number of states to Five more states joined the Union in the 20th century.
Alaska and Hawaii were the last to join the nation — both were admitted together in August 21, About Quizzes. All states are admitted to the Union on an equal footing.
This is not a provision of the Constitution itself, but U. Supreme Court rulings have established that Congress cannot discriminate against states when they are admitted. Vermont could be considered on the same footing as the original thirteen colonies, since Vermont has been independent since and operated under its own constitution before applying to the United States for admission, which was granted in Other early states like Kentucky, Tennessee, and Maine were taken out of land originally considered to be part of one of the original thirteen.
Following the Louisiana Purchase , Louisiana was proposed for admission as a state. Josiah Quincy , a leader of the Federalist Party in the House of Representatives, denounced the bill, using the theory that the original constitution allocated powers to the original states, which the addition of new states would unreasonably dilute.
He went so far as to suggest that the New England states would be within their rights to secede of more western states were admitted. His objections found little support outside of Massachusetts. With the acquisition of new territories by treaty, combined with war, the United States extended its dominion to the Pacific Ocean.
These new lands were gradually incorporated into the Union until Arizona in completed the union of the contiguous 48 states. Almost 50 years later, Alaska and Hawaii were added.
There has been some consideration of admitting Puerto Rico to the union, but this presently seems unlikely During the years leading up to the Civil War , the question of slavery in territories became a major concern. The Missouri Compromise of created the precedent that states would be admitted in pairs, one slave and one free, which held until the Kansas-Nebraska Act of The issue of secession from the Union is not addressed directly in the constitution.
The fundamental constitutional issue of the Civil War was the contention by Southern states that the Union was voluntary and revokable, while Lincoln and the North asserted that once in, there was no way out. Admission Date. Born in Kentucky in , Albert Senator Timothy Pickering, a Federalist from Massachusetts, becomes the first senator to be censured when the Senate approves a censure motion against him by a vote of 20 to seven.
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