United States of America, the., BOUNDARIES AND AREA.—On the east the boundary is formed by the St. Croix River and an arbitrary line to the St. John, and on the...
Of all the States of the Union, the origin of Maine is perhaps the least certain, with the most widely disparate theories. The name is first recorded from 1622 in the granting of land in a large area of New England to Sir Ferdinand Gorges and Captain John Mason, two of the founders of...
The States in UnionAfter the British and colonial forces had combined to drive the French from Canada and the Great Lakes region in the French and Indian War (1754–60; see under French and Indian Wars), the colonists felt less need of British protection; but at this very time the ...
stripes but still used the British Union Flag in the canton. This is called the "Grand Union" or "Cambridge" Flag, and various other flags were in use at the same time. On 14 June 1777, the Continental Congress adopted a flag with stars as well as stripes for the colonies, as a "n...
44.4% Population 5,910,955 Capital Madison Median Income $42,873 Wisconsin, admitted to the union in 1848 as the30th state, traces its history to French explorers arriving in the early 1600s. Samuel de Champlain, governor of what was then New France and nowCanada, dispatched Etienne Brule ...
Statehood: When did YOUR state join the Union? Stately Dates: Dates of Entry into the U.S. Texas was the 28th state admitted to the Union...What number was Kansas? Find out here by clicking onStates Order of Admission to the U.S.A.(with dates) FLAGS...
Confederate States of America, the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860–61, following the election of Abraham Lincoln as U.S. president, prompting the American Civil War (1861–65). The Confederacy acted as a separate gov
Section 3. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States 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 Republican and Democratic National Committees respectively earlier that year became “core institutions” of NED and CIPE was formed at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to join the longstanding international “free labor union” arm of the AFL-CIO which became the other two “core institutions”...
In doing so, it asserts that a weak union of the states will make the country more vulnerable to internal and external dissension, including civil war and invasion from foreign powers.One of the most famous of its essays is The Federalist, number 10, by James Madison. In it, Madison ...