THE MAKING OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

When and how the states came to be

WHERE WE GOT OUR INFO

  Reprinted with permission of Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services

  • Congressional Research Ser-
    vice:     Admission of States Into the
    Union After the Original Thirteen:
    A Brief History and Analysis of the
    Statehood Process     (1985)

  • U.S. General Accounting Office:
    Experiences of Past Territories
    Can Assist Puerto Rico status
    Deliberations     (1980)
  • Ulrich Ellis: Formation of New
    States by Irregular Means     (1961)
  • Legislative Reference Bureau of
    Hawaii:     Procedures Followed by
    States Admitted Into the Union
    Without Congressional Enabling
    Acts     (1949)
  • James M. McPherson: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988)
  • The World Book Encyclopedia (1992)

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Bennie J. McRae, Jr.
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