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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]
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.
1628 Nieuw-Walcheren (Netherlands) [20] 1637 Neu-Kurland (Poland-Lithuania) [20] Arawak and Island Caribs [20] 1654 Nieuw-Walcheren (Netherlands) [20] 1677 Trinidad [20] 1797 Tobago United States: Alabama: Native Americans: Mississippi Territory 1798 Alabama Territory 1817 1819 Alabama 1861 Alabama 1865 Alabama Alaska
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
The 50 U.S. states, in alphabetical order, along with each state's flag: ... each then joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, ... [20] Executive In ...
The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the number of presidencies and the number of individuals who have served as president.
Thirty-three amendments to the Constitution of the United States have been proposed by the United States Congress and sent to the states for ratification since the Constitution was put into operation on March 4, 1789. Twenty-seven of those, having been ratified by the requisite number of states, are part of the Constitution.
George W. Bush during his 2005 State of the Union address.. This is a list of State of the Union addresses.The State of the Union is the constitutionally mandated annual report by the president of the United States, the head of the U.S. federal executive departments, to the United States Congress, the U.S. federal legislative body.