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Delaware became the first state in the United States of America ('the Union') when it ratified the United States Constitution on December 7, 1786.
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New Jersey claims that credit as the first to approve the US Constitution that formed the United States.

However, the earliest colonies (states) were in Virginia and Massachusetts, and the first to declare its independence was Rhode island on May 4, 1776.

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Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution and become a State in 1787.
The first state was Delaware - December 7, 1787

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Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn in 1681, he was given the claim by the King of England to pay of the King's IOU"S to Penn's father after he died.

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The first state to be made was verginia i think.

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Delaware was the first state in the United States. It became a state on December 7, 1787.

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New Jersey claims that credit as the first to approve the US Constitution that formed the United States.

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Virginia

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Delaware.

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