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List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union

A state of the United States is one of the 50 constituent entities that shares its sovereignty with the federal government.

state">state of the United States is one of the 50 constituent entities that shares its sovereignty with the federal government. Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside, due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government. Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia use the term commonwealth rather than state in their full official names.

List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union
Map of the United States with names and borders of states
List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union
The order in which the original 13 states ratified the 1787 Constitution, then the order in which the others were admitted to the Union

States are the primary subdivisions of the United States. They possess all powers not granted to the federal government, nor prohibited to them by the Constitution of the United States. In general, state governments have the power to regulate issues of local concern, such as regulating intrastate commerce, running elections, creating local governments, public school policy, and non-federal road construction and maintenance. Each state has its own constitution grounded in republican principles, and government consisting of executive, legislative, and judicial branches.

All states and their residents are represented in the federal Congress, a bicameral legislature consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Each state is represented by two senators, and at least one representative, while the size of a state's House delegation depends on its total population, as determined by the most recent constitutionally mandated decennial census. Additionally, each state is entitled to select a number of electors to vote in the Electoral College, the body that elects the President of the United States and Vice President of the United States, equal to the total of representatives and senators in Congress from that state.

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.

List of U.S. states

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. (A separate table is included below showing AoC ratification dates.) These states are presented in the order in which each ratified the 1787 Constitution and joined the others in the new (and current) federal government. The date of admission listed for each subsequent state is the official date set by Act of Congress.

State Date
(admitted or ratified) 		Formed from
1 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Delaware December 7, 1787
(ratified) 		Colony of Delaware
2 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Pennsylvania December 12, 1787
(ratified) 		Proprietary Province of Pennsylvania
3 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  New Jersey December 18, 1787
(ratified) 		Crown Colony of New Jersey
4 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Georgia January 2, 1788
(ratified) 		Crown Colony of Georgia
5 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Connecticut January 9, 1788
(ratified) 		Crown Colony of Connecticut
6 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Massachusetts February 6, 1788
(ratified) 		Crown Colony of Massachusetts Bay
7 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Maryland April 28, 1788
(ratified) 		Proprietary Province of Maryland
8 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  South Carolina May 23, 1788
(ratified) 		Crown Colony of South Carolina
9 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  New Hampshire June 21, 1788
(ratified) 		Crown Colony of New Hampshire
10 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Virginia June 25, 1788
(ratified) 		Crown Colony and Dominion of Virginia
11 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  New York July 26, 1788
(ratified) 		Crown Colony of New York
12 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  North Carolina November 21, 1789
(ratified) 		Crown Colony of North Carolina
13 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Rhode Island May 29, 1790
(ratified) 		Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
14 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Vermont March 4, 1791
(admitted) 		Vermont Republic
15 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Kentucky June 1, 1792
(admitted) 		Virginia (nine counties in its District of Kentucky)
16 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Tennessee June 1, 1796
(admitted) 		Southwest Territory
17 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Ohio March 1, 1803
(admitted) 		Northwest Territory (part)
18 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Louisiana April 30, 1812
(admitted) 		Territory of Orleans
19 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Indiana December 11, 1816
(admitted) 		Indiana Territory
20 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Mississippi December 10, 1817
(admitted) 		Mississippi Territory
21 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Illinois December 3, 1818
(admitted) 		Illinois Territory (part)
22 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Alabama December 14, 1819
(admitted) 		Alabama Territory
23 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Maine March 15, 1820
(admitted) 		Massachusetts (District of Maine)
24 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Missouri August 10, 1821
(admitted) 		Missouri Territory (part)
25 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Arkansas June 15, 1836
(admitted) 		Arkansas Territory
26 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Michigan January 26, 1837
(admitted) 		Michigan Territory
27 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Florida March 3, 1845
(admitted) 		Florida Territory
28 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Texas December 29, 1845
(admitted) 		Republic of Texas
29 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Iowa December 28, 1846
(admitted) 		Iowa Territory (part)
30 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Wisconsin May 29, 1848
(admitted) 		Wisconsin Territory (part)
31 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  California September 9, 1850
(admitted) 		Unorganized territory / Mexican Cession (part)
32 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Minnesota May 11, 1858
(admitted) 		Minnesota Territory (part)
33 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Oregon February 14, 1859
(admitted) 		Oregon Territory (part)
34 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Kansas January 29, 1861
(admitted) 		Kansas Territory (part)
35 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  West Virginia June 20, 1863
(admitted) 		Virginia (50 Trans-Allegheny region counties)
36 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Nevada October 31, 1864
(admitted) 		Nevada Territory
37 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Nebraska March 1, 1867
(admitted) 		Nebraska Territory
38 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Colorado August 1, 1876
(admitted) 		Colorado Territory
39 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  North Dakota November 2, 1889
(admitted) 		Dakota Territory (part)
40 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  South Dakota November 2, 1889
(admitted) 		Dakota Territory (part)
41 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Montana November 8, 1889
(admitted) 		Montana Territory
42 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Washington November 11, 1889
(admitted) 		Washington Territory
43 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Idaho July 3, 1890
(admitted) 		Idaho Territory
44 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Wyoming July 10, 1890
(admitted) 		Wyoming Territory
45 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Utah January 4, 1896
(admitted) 		Utah Territory
46 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Oklahoma November 16, 1907
(admitted) 		Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory
47 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  New Mexico January 6, 1912
(admitted) 		New Mexico Territory
48 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Arizona February 14, 1912
(admitted) 		Arizona Territory
49 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Alaska January 3, 1959
(admitted) 		Territory of Alaska
50 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Hawaii August 21, 1959
(admitted) 		Territory of Hawaii

Articles of Confederation ratification dates

The Second Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation for ratification by the individual states on November 15, 1777. The Articles of Confederation came into force on March 1, 1781, after being ratified by all 13 states. On March 4, 1789, the general government under the Articles was replaced with the federal government under the present Constitution.

State Date
1 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Virginia December 16, 1777
2 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  South Carolina February 5, 1778
3 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  New York February 6, 1778
4 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Rhode Island February 9, 1778
5 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Connecticut February 12, 1778
6 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Georgia February 26, 1778
7 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  New Hampshire March 4, 1778
8 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Pennsylvania March 5, 1778
9 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Massachusetts March 10, 1778
10 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  North Carolina April 5, 1778
11 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  New Jersey November 19, 1778
12 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Delaware February 1, 1779
13 List Of U.s. States By Date Of Admission To The Union  Maryland February 2, 1781

See also

  • Compromise of 1850, a package of congressional acts, one of which provided for the admission of California to the Union
  • Bleeding Kansas, a series of violent conflicts in Kansas Territory involving anti-slavery and pro-slavery factions in the years preceding Kansas statehood, 1854–61
  • Enabling Act of 1889, authorizing residents of Dakota, Montana, and Washington territories to form state governments (Dakota to be divided into two states) and to gain admission to the Union
  • Oklahoma Enabling Act, authorizing residents of the Oklahoma and Indian territories to form a state government and to be admitted to the union as a single state, and, authorizing the people of New Mexico and Arizona territories to form a state government and be admitted into the Union, requiring a referendum to determine if both territories should be admitted as a single state
  • Alaska Statehood Act, admitting Alaska as a state in the Union as of January 3, 1959
  • Hawaii Admission Act, admitting Hawaii as a state in the Union as of August 21, 1959

Notes

References

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