How did New York become a state?
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It was one of the original 13 colonies that formed the United States.
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Rhode Island became a state on May 29, 1790. It was one of the original 13 states.
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did you know that philidelphia was also the capital at one time?\n\nto answer your question, d.c. was formed in order to be the new capital. they didnt just move it to some city, it was created with the intent to become the new capital. it was done partly because the leaders at the time wanted to move the capital out of the north to a city between the northern states and southern states.
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The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was one of the original thirteen colonies. It was the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution on December 12, 1787, after Delaware.
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Here goes!!!\nThe state was admitted to the Union on February 14, 1859.
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Brad got it, but the question itself is incorrect.  The State of Franklin, formed in 1784 from land used by North Carolina to pay War debts, was part of the union held lands but never became one of the United States.\nThe ratification vote went 7 to 6 in favor, but this was 2 less than the number needed.  The land was then passed into the Southwest Territory which became the State of Tennessee a few years later.
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NY the state realizes that NY the city is full of nuts.\nHeck- even parts of NYC want to break away and reform into their own cities, just like they used to be. (Staten Island, Brooklyn, etc all used to be individual cities.)
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I believe it's part of new york
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50 states, and lots of other islands, etc. that are governed by us, such as Puerto Rico and American Samoa.  They wish they were states.\n\nSamoa, and Washington DC both have people in them, who for various reasons, wish to become states, but congress is to busy for their appeals.
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It was formally signed on August 2, 1776, with some members adding their names after that date.  \n\nHistoric US document stating the theory of government on which the USA was founded, based on the right ‘to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’. The statement was issued by the Continental Congress on 4 July 1776, renouncing all allegiance to the British crown and ending the political connection with Britain.\n\nFollowing a resolution moved on 7 June, by Richard Henry Lee, ‘that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States’, a committee including Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin was set up to draft a declaration; most of the work was done by Jefferson.\n\nThe resolution, coming almost a year after the outbreak of hostilities, was adopted by the representatives of 12 colonies (New York abstained initially) on 2 July, and the Declaration on 4 July; the latter date has ever since been celebrated as Independence Day in the USA. The representatives of New York announced their adhesion on 15 July, and the Declaration was afterwards signed by the members of Congress on 2 August.\n\nThe declaration enumerated the grievances the colonists harboured against the British crown, which included its use of American Indians to attack colonists, taxation without representation, and denial of civil liberties
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"When and how did New York City come to be called "The Big Apple'?"\nThis is by far the most frequently asked question submitted to our New York History Hotline.\n\nIn popular folklore, the name is usually traced to early jazz musicians or long-ago sports figures. Often, the explanation of the so-called "origin" of this phrase is accompanied with plausible-sounding historical or biographical details, giving it an unmistakable (but alas, totally spurious) "ring of truth."\n\nBecause this question continues to excite curiosity, and because the real facts are quite well known to serious historians, we provide the following authoritative account, based on our unique archival sources. The story may disappoint some readers -- truth, after all, is often less colorful than fiction. But facts are facts.\n\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nIn the early years of the nineteenth century, refugees from war-torn Europe began arriving in New York in great numbers. Many were remnants of the crumbling French aristocracy, forced to seek refuge abroad from the dread "Monsieur Guillotine." Arriving here without funds or friends, many of these were forced to survive, as one contemporary put it, "by their wits or worse."\nOne of these, arriving in late 1803 or early 1804, was Mlle. Evelyn Claudine de Saint-Évremond. Daughter of a noted courtier, wit, and littérateur, and herself a favorite of Marie Antoinette, Evelyn was by all accounts remarkably attractive: beautiful, vivacious, and well-educated, and she was soon a society favorite. For reasons never disclosed, however, a planned marriage the following year to John Hamilton, son of the late Alexander Hamilton, was called off at the last minute. Soon after, with support from several highly placed admirers, she established a salon -- in fact, it appears to have been an elegantly furnished bordello -- in a substantial house that still stands at 142 Bond Street, then one of the city's most exclusive residential districts.\n\nEvelyn's establishment quickly won, and for several decades maintained, a formidable reputation as the most entertaining and discreet of the city's many "temples of love," a place not only for lovemaking, but also for elegant dinners, high-stakes gambling, and witty conversation. The girls, many of them fresh arrivals from Paris or London, were noted for their beauty and bearing. More than a few of them, apparently, were actually able to secure wealthy husbands from among the establishment's clientele.\n\nWhen New Yorkers insisted on anglicizing her name to "Eve," Evelyn apparently found the biblical reference highly amusing, and for her part would refer to the temptresses in her employ as "my irresistable apples." The young men-about-town soon got into the habit of referring to their amorous adventures as "having a taste of Eve's Apples." This knowing phrase established the speaker as one of the "in" crowd, and at the same time made it clear he had no need to visit one of the coarser establishments that crowded nearby Mercer Street, for instance. The enigmatic reference in Philip Hone's famous diary to "Ida, sweet as apple cider" (October 4, 1838) has been described as an oblique reference to a visit to what had by then become a notorious but cherished civic institution.\n\nThe rest, as they say, is etymological history.\n\nThe sexual connotation of the word "apple" was well known in New York and throughout the country until around World War I. The Gentleman's Directory of New York City, a privately published (1870) guide to the town's "houses of assignation," confidently asserted that "in freshness, sweetness, beauty, and firmness to the touch, New York's apples are superior to any in the New World or indeed the Old." Meanwhile, various &
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state where acct. originated
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Back int he day.. the state used to be divided into two sections;  Rhode Island which is now Aquidneck Island and Providence plantations.. which is the rest of the territory of the state.    I didn't know if you knew that Massachusetts and Maine used to be the same state..
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Puerto Rico belongs to the USA but is not a state..it is considered a province( I believe)  In the 60's, all the countries were communist or a monarche.  I think all but Puerto Rico still is.  Therefore, since the countries were totalitarian in nature, the ppl fled to freedom.  The cities included Florida, NYC, CA and AZ...and by the way they are still coming but for different reasons even though the governments are still the same.
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NYC was founded by the Dutch (original NYC name was New Amsterdam).\n\nThe Dutch have a history and culture of tolerance going back hundreds of years.\n\nIn NYC that Dutch attitude still holds sway.\n\nWe many not love each-other -- we probably don't even like each-other.\n\nBut we know how to live and get along in peace with each-other.
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It has very much to do with how the United States was formed - from small units to a larger country instead of the conventional way where a nation is split into multiple provinces. This division of a nation into a central and local government is known as FEDERALISM.\n\nTake China for example, which uses provinces. The nation was united under emperor Qin Shi Huang and divided into multiple provinces, in order to more efficiently govern the nation. Here, the central government did the dividing, and hence kept as much power as possible to themselves.\n\nIn contrast, the United States (the name itself is suggestive) upon its formation consisted of 13 colonies, which united under a common cause to achieve independence. None of these states wanted to give up their power, contributing to the failure of the first union under the Articles of Confederation.\n\nThis was finally solved under the Constitution, which we continue to live under today. The basic model, however, persists, where the states have their own sphere of power that the central government (often misleadingly called the "federal government") cannot infringe upon. This does not exist under the province system where the central government is supreme in all matters.
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In order by date they ratified the Constitution:\n\n1. Delaware Dec. 7, 1787\n2. Pennsylvania Dec. 12, 1787\n3. New Jersey Dec. 18, 1787\n4. Georgia Jan. 2, 1788\n5. ConnecticutJan. 9, 1788\n6. Massachusetts Feb. 6, 1788\n7. Maryland Apr. 28, 1788\n8. South Carolina May 23, 1788\n9. New Hampshire June 21, 1788\n10. Virginia June 25, 1788\n11. New York July 26, 1788\n12. North Carolina Nov. 21, 1789\n13. Rhode Island May 29, 1790