List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union

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The order in which the original 13 states ratified the 1787 Constitution, then the order in which the others were admitted to the Union

A 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.[1] Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia use the term commonwealth rather than state in their full official names.

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.[2]

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.[3] 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.[4]

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]

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.[6] (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.Template:Refn

State Date
(admitted or ratified) 		Formed from
1 File:Flag of Delaware.svg Delaware Template:Dts[7]
(ratified) 		Colony of DelawareTemplate:Refn
2 File:Flag of Pennsylvania.svg Pennsylvania Template:Dts[8]
(ratified) 		Proprietary Province of Pennsylvania
3 File:Flag of New Jersey.svg New Jersey Template:Dts[9]
(ratified) 		Crown Colony of New Jersey
4 File:Flag of Georgia (U.S. state).svg Georgia Template:Dts[7]
(ratified) 		Crown Colony of Georgia
5 File:Flag of Connecticut.svg Connecticut Template:Dts[10]
(ratified) 		Crown Colony of Connecticut
6 File:Flag of Massachusetts.svg Massachusetts Template:Dts[7]
(ratified) 		Crown Colony of Massachusetts Bay
7 File:Flag of Maryland.svg Maryland Template:Dts[7]
(ratified) 		Proprietary Province of Maryland
8 File:Flag of South Carolina.svg South Carolina Template:Dts[7]
(ratified) 		Crown Colony of South Carolina
9 File:Flag of New Hampshire.svg New Hampshire Template:Dts[7]
(ratified) 		Crown Colony of New Hampshire
10 File:Flag of Virginia.svg Virginia Template:Dts[7]
(ratified) 		Crown Colony and Dominion of Virginia
11 File:Flag of New York.svg New York Template:Dts[11]
(ratified) 		Crown Colony of New York
12 File:Flag of North Carolina.svg North Carolina Template:Dts[12]
(ratified) 		Crown Colony of North Carolina
13 File:Flag of Rhode Island.svg Rhode Island Template:Dts[7]
(ratified) 		Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
14 File:Flag of Vermont.svg Vermont Template:Dts[13]
(admitted) 		Script error: No such module "sort".
15 File:Flag of Kentucky.svg Kentucky Template:Dts[14]
(admitted) 		Virginia (nine counties in its District of KentuckyTemplate:Refn)
16 File:Flag of Tennessee.svg Tennessee Template:Dts[15]
(admitted) 		Southwest Territory
17 File:Flag of Ohio.svg Ohio Template:Dts[16]Template:Refn
(admitted) 		Northwest Territory (part)
18 File:Flag of Louisiana.svg Louisiana Template:Dts[17]
(admitted) 		Script error: No such module "sort".
19 File:Flag of Indiana.svg Indiana Template:Dts[18]
(admitted) 		Indiana Territory
20 File:Flag of Mississippi.svg Mississippi Template:Dts[19]
(admitted) 		Mississippi Territory
21 File:Flag of Illinois.svg Illinois Template:Dts[20]
(admitted) 		Illinois Territory (part)
22 File:Flag of Alabama.svg Alabama Template:Dts[21]
(admitted) 		Alabama Territory
23 File:Flag of Maine.svg Maine Template:Dts[22]
(admitted) 		Massachusetts (District of MaineTemplate:Refn)
24 File:Flag of Missouri.svg Missouri Template:Dts[23]
(admitted) 		Missouri Territory (part)
25 File:Flag of Arkansas.svg Arkansas Template:Dts[24]
(admitted) 		Arkansas Territory
26 File:Flag of Michigan.svg Michigan Template:Dts[25]
(admitted) 		Michigan Territory
27 File:Flag of Florida.svg Florida Template:Dts[26]
(admitted) 		Florida Territory
28 File:Flag of Texas.svg Texas Template:Dts[27]
(admitted) 		Script error: No such module "sort".
29 File:Flag of Iowa.svg Iowa Template:Dts[28]
(admitted) 		Iowa Territory (part)
30 File:Flag of Wisconsin.svg Wisconsin Template:Dts[29]
(admitted) 		Wisconsin Territory (part)
31 File:Flag of California.svg California Template:Dts[30]
(admitted) 		Unorganized territory / Mexican Cession (part)Template:Refn
32 File:Flag of Minnesota.svg Minnesota Template:Dts[31]
(admitted) 		Minnesota Territory (part)
33 File:Flag of Oregon.svg Oregon Template:Dts[32]
(admitted) 		Oregon Territory (part)
34 File:Flag of Kansas.svg Kansas Template:Dts[33]
(admitted) 		Kansas Territory (part)
35 File:Flag of West Virginia.svg West Virginia Template:Dts[34]
(admitted) 		Virginia (50 Trans-Allegheny region countiesTemplate:Refn)
36 File:Flag of Nevada.svg Nevada Template:Dts[35]
(admitted) 		Nevada Territory
37 File:Flag of Nebraska.svg Nebraska Template:Dts[36]
(admitted) 		Nebraska Territory
38 File:Flag of Colorado.svg Colorado Template:Dts[37]
(admitted) 		Colorado Territory
39 File:Flag of North Dakota.svg North Dakota Template:Dts[38]Template:Refn
(admitted) 		Dakota Territory (part)
40 File:Flag of South Dakota.svg South Dakota Template:Dts[38]Template:Refn
(admitted) 		Dakota Territory (part)
41 File:Flag of Montana.svg Montana Template:Dts[39]
(admitted) 		Montana Territory
42 File:Flag of Washington.svg Washington Template:Dts[40]
(admitted) 		Washington Territory
43 File:Flag of Idaho.svg Idaho Template:Dts[41]
(admitted) 		Idaho Territory
44 File:Flag of Wyoming.svg Wyoming Template:Dts[42]
(admitted) 		Wyoming Territory
45 File:Flag of Utah.svg Utah Template:Dts[43]
(admitted) 		Utah Territory
46 File:Flag of Oklahoma.svg Oklahoma Template:Dts[44]
(admitted) 		Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory
47 File:Flag of New Mexico.svg New Mexico Template:Dts[45]
(admitted) 		New Mexico Territory
48 File:Flag of Arizona.svg Arizona Template:Dts[45]
(admitted) 		Arizona Territory
49 File:Flag of Alaska.svg Alaska Template:Dts[46]
(admitted) 		Script error: No such module "sort".
50 File:Flag of Hawaii.svg Hawaii Template:Dts[47]
(admitted) 		Script error: No such module "sort".

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.[48]

State Date
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Script error: No such module "sort". File:Seal of South Carolina.svg South Carolina Template:Dts
Script error: No such module "sort". File:Seal of New York.svg New York Template:Dts
Script error: No such module "sort". File:Seal of Rhode Island.svg Rhode Island Template:Dts
Script error: No such module "sort". File:Seal of Connecticut.svg Connecticut Template:Dts
Script error: No such module "sort". File:Seal of Georgia.svg Georgia Template:Dts
Script error: No such module "sort". File:Seal of New Hampshire.svg New Hampshire Template:Dts
Script error: No such module "sort". File:Seal of Pennsylvania.svg Pennsylvania Template:Dts
Script error: No such module "sort". File:Seal of Massachusetts.svg Massachusetts Template:Dts
Script error: No such module "sort". File:Seal of North Carolina.svg North Carolina Template:Dts
Script error: No such module "sort". File:Seal of New Jersey.svg New Jersey Template:Dts
Script error: No such module "sort". File:Seal of Delaware.svg Delaware Template:Dts
Script error: No such module "sort". File:Seal of Maryland (reverse).svg Maryland Template:Dts

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

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