Statehood Process of the Fifty States
Publisher: Novinka Books
Published: August 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9781590334379
Subjects: Local government; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Government - State & Provincial; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Federal government; History; State governments; Statehood (American politics); United States; Politics/International Relations
Description: "Following its independence from Britain, the United States faced the question of how to dispose of lands located outside the colonial borders. Several pieces of legislation were considered at the Continental Congress to formulate a statehood process - from creation of a territorial government to delegation at the Congress to final admission to the Union. The Constitution further refined the steps to admission, including requirements of popular electoral support for statehood and population minimums.

Each state followed its own path of entry into the U.S., be it like Maine which skipped the territorial step or like Texas which began life as an independent nation. This book traces the history of the statehood process and looks at how each of the current fifty states came to join as one nation."--BOOK JACKET.