USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -New Hampshire: June 21, 1788 (With this state’s ratification, the Constitution became legal.) Virginia: June 25, 1788. New York: July 26, 1788. North Carolina: November 21, 1789.

Detailed explanation-2: -After New Hampshire became the ninth State to ratify, on June 22, 1788, the Confederation Congress established March 9, 1789 as the date to begin operating under the Constitution. By this time, all the States except North Carolina and Rhode Island had ratified-the Ocean State was the last to ratify on May 29, 1790.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mississippi was one of four states that rejected ratification of the 13th amendment, along with New Jersey, Delaware, and Kentucky. The amendment passed without Mississippi’s support anyway, and all the other no-voting states symbolically ratified the amendment in the following years.

Detailed explanation-4: -On this day in 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth and last necessary state of the original 13 colonies to ratify the U.S. Constitution. It became the organic law of the land. The new Constitution created a stronger federal government under an intricate system of checks and balances.