US State Admission

The original 13 colonies applied for admission as States in 1787 1788 and 1790. Additional territories formed and applied for admission from 1791 and to 1912. Alaska and Hawaii were added in 1959. 

Year   State

1787  Delaware

1787 Pennsylvania

1787 New Jersey

1788 Georgia

1788 Connecticut

1788 Massachusetts

1788 Maryland

1788 N Carolina

1788 New Hampshire

1788 Virginia

1788 New York

1788 N Carolina

1790 Rhode Island

 

1791 Vermont

1792 Kentucky

1796 Tennessee

1803 Ohio

1812 Louisiana

1816 Indiana

1817 Mississippi

1818 Illinois

1819 Alabama

1820 Maine

1821 Missouri

1836 Arkansas

1837 Michigan

1845 Florida

1845 Texas

1846 Iowa

1848 Wisconsin

1850 California

1858 Minnesota

1859 Oregon

1861 Kansas

1863 W Virginia

1864 Nevada

1867 Nebraska

1876 Colorado

1889 N Dakota

1889 S Dakota

1889 Montana

1889 Washington

1890 Idaho

1896 Utah

1907 Oklahoma

1912 New Mexico

1912 Arizona

1959 Alaska

1959 Hawaii

https://www.sos.arkansas.gov/education/arkansas-history/history-of-the-flag/order-of-states-admission

 

The Harrison Land Act of 1800 created the framework for US public land policy for twenty years. Under the act, half sections of 320 acres were to be sold at two dollars per acre, and purchases were allowed on credit.

https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/land-sales-public-1800-1840s/#:~:text=The%20Harrison%20Land%20Act%20of,purchases%20were%20allowed%20on%20credit.

 

Between 1862 and 1934, the federal government granted 1.6 million homesteads and distributed 270,000,000 acres (420,000 sq mi) of federal land for private ownership. This was a total of 10% of all land in the United States. Homesteading was discontinued in 1976, except in Alaska, where it continued until 1986.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Acts#:~:text=Between%201862%20and%201934%2C%20the,where%20it%20continued%20until%201986.

 

The Indian Wars ended in 1924. America's real longest war was the conflict against Indigenous Americans, called the American Indian Wars, which most historians characterize as beginning in 1609 and ending in 1924 or 313 years, mainly over land control. – goggle

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars

 

Comments

Western states were the last to petition for admission to statehood.

 

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader