CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. VOTE ON FOUR PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO STATE CONSTI- Organization of Territories and Admission of States into the Union. May 23, 1788 June 21, 1788 June 26, 1788 July 26, 1788 Nov. 21, 1789 May 29, 1790 State Admitted. *Reduced from 100 to 70 square miles by recession of part of Virginia in 1846. When Organized. July 27, 1868 14, 1900 POPULATION AND AREA OF THE UNITED STATES IN SQUARE MILES, BY STATES AND TERRITORIES. *Exclusive of Alaska, 590,884 square miles, Guam, 210 square miles, Hawaii 6,449 square miles. Panama Canal Zone, 436 square miles. Philippine Islands, which contain 115,026 square miles, Porto Rico, 3,435 square miles, Samoa, 77 square miles. Does not include the water surface of the oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, or the Great Lakes, lying within the jurisdiction of the United States. |