What 3 things change when a new state enters the Union?
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The number of States. The number of Stars on the Flag. The size of Congress.
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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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Hawaii (Aug 21, 1959). If you want to know the specific dates and order that states joined the union, try browsing the US Treasury website for the state quarter programs. They are releasing the state quarters in order and there's a neat map showing the the dates each state joined!
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You will have to establish permanent residency in that state, and every state will have different policies for this. Look into the states official policy on establishing residency. My guess is that many states will require you to have lived there for 2 or 3 years first.
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Here's a nice little letter as to what would happen if the blue and red states split:\n\nDear Red States,\n\nWe’ve decided we’re leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we’re taking the other Blue States with us. In case you aren’t aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.\n\nTo sum up briefly:\n\nYou get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches.\n\nWe get Elliot Spitzer. You get Ken Lay.\n\nWe get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood.\n\nWe get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.\n\nWe get Harvard. You get Ole’ Miss.\n\nWe get 85 percent of America’s venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama.\n\nWe get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay their fair share.\n\nSince our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition’s, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms.\n\nPlease be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we’re going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they’re apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they don’t care if you don’t show pictures of their children’s caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we’re not willing to spend our resources in Bush’s quagmire.\n\nWith the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent of the country’s fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation’s fresh fruit, 95 percent of America’s quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners), 90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy league schools, Seven Sister schools, plus Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.\n\nWith the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88 percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all tele-evangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia and the vast majority of illiterate Americans also known as Arkansas.\n\nWe get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.\n\nAdditionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred unless we’re discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy b*****ds believe you are people with higher morals than we lefties.\n\nPeace out,\nBlue States
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Puerto Rico I guess. Since they're already U.S. citizens anyway they might as well incorporate PR into the union.
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Any amendment proposed and passed by the US Congress must be ratified the the state legislatures of two-thirds of the states.  Individual states cannot, however, make direct changes to the constitution.
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Hawaii, it was the last state added to the union \n\n\nAlaska Jan. 3, 1959\nHawaii Aug. 21, 1959
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go to 50states.com.  They all kinds of facts and trivia on each state.
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There will be ten new senators; one each from Vermont, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Minnesota, Missouri, Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, and Montana.\n\nThere will be fifty-two new House members; two from New Hampshire, one from Vermont, two from Connecticut, four from New York, one from New Jersey, four from Pennsylvania, four from Ohio, one from Michigan, three from Indiana, two from Illinois, one from Wisconsin, two from Minnesota, two from Iowa, one from Kansas, one from Nebraska, one from Maryland, one from Kentucky, two from Tennessee, one from North Carolina, one from Georgia, five from Florida, one from Texas, one from Oklahoma, two from Colorado, one from Idaho, one from Nevada, two from Arizona, one from California (only one?!?), and one from Hawaii.
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End:\n\n-Income Taxes\n-90% of welfare\n-HUD and other wasteful Gov't programs\n\nI would Return as much power to the states as I could.\nAddress the nation with a speech of personal liberties freedoms.\n\n\n\nBasicaly Try to Change the Government back to the way the Founding Fathers Wanted it to be.
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Some of you may think this is a silly question, but it's really not. There is a trend, especially in Europe, for returning more power to states/provinces. Scotland now has its own government that decides most if not all of their domestic affairs. Catalonia in Spain wants independence. A few years ago Quebec came very close to leaving Canada. The fact of the matter is, culturally, the southern part of the U.S. is just really different then the northeast and western parts of the United States. Take a look of a map showing where the "red" states are and the "blue" states. See a trend? Just think about it; wouldn't a lot of you blue state folks be happier joining Canada in some great big socialist experiment?
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Probably war.  I think Texas is the only state that put into its terms of statehood that it has the right to secede.
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Trick question.  Virginia split into Virginia and WEST Virginia at the time, when Virginia joined the confederacy, and West Virginia remained in the Union.
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This is different in each state.
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1.national territory\n2.Declaration of principles and state policies\n3.Bill of rights\n4.citizenship\n5.suffrage\n6.Legislative department\n7.executive department\n8.judicial department\n9.Constitutional Commissions\n10.local Government\n11.Accountability of public officers\n12.national economy and patrimony\n13.Social justice and human rights\n14.education, science and technology, arts\n15.the family\n16.general provisions\n17.amendments or revisions\n18 transitory provisions\n\nplz vote best answer...
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One thing is to break the states down into regions. There are seven they naturally break down into:\n\nNew England: ME, NH, VT, MA, RI. CT\nMid Atlantic: NY, NJ, PA, MD, DE, WV \nSouth (Confederate): VA, NC, SC, GA, FL. Al, MS, LA, TX, AR, TN, KY\nMidwest: OH, MI, IN, IL, WI, MN, IA\nPlains: MO, ND, SD, NE, KS, OK\nWest: MT, WY, CO, NM, AZ, UT, NV, ID\nPacific: CA, OR, WA, AK, HA\n\nIf you think of the states regionally, it does help.