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The area that is now Massachusetts was colonized by English settlers in the early 17th century and became the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the 18th century. Before that, it was inhabited by a variety of Native American tribes. Massachusetts is named after the Massachusett tribe that inhabited the area of present-day Greater Boston.
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]
The state's 12th congressional district elected the first openly gay member of the United States House of Representatives, Gerry Studds, in 1972 [340] and in 2004, Massachusetts became the first state to allow same-sex marriage. [59] In 2006, Massachusetts became the first state to approve a law that provided for nearly universal healthcare.
English settlers adopted the term Massachusett for the name for the people, language, and ultimately as the name of their colony which became the American state of Massachusetts. John Smith first published the term Massachusett in 1616. [3] Narragansett people called the tribe Massachêuck. [3]
Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1: New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Connecticut became the fifth state to ratify the Constitution. [65] February 6, 1788 Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the Constitution. [66] April 28, 1788 Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the Constitution. [67] May 23, 1788 South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the Constitution. [68] June 21, 1788
t. e. The history of the United States from 1776 to 1789 was marked by the nation's transition from the American Revolutionary War to the establishment of a novel constitutional order. As a result of the American Revolution, the thirteen British colonies emerged as a newly independent nation, the United States of America, between 1776 and 1789.
As a result of this, Massachusetts was the only state to have zero slaves enumerated on the 1790 federal census. (By 1790, the Vermont Republic had also officially ended slavery, but it was not admitted as a state until 1791.) Maine, in the 1790 Census, also lists no enslaved people among its population but did not become a state until 1820.