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New Hampshire

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Sherman A1

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Fri Jun 21, 2013, 04:02 AM Jun 2013

June 21, 1788 New Hampshire ratifies the US Constitution becomes the 9th State. [View all]

New Hampshire (US i/nuːˈhæmpʃər/) is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. New Hampshire is the 5th smallest and the 9th least populous of the 50 United States.

It became the first of the British North American colonies to break away from Great Britain in January 1776, and six months later was one of the original thirteen states that founded the United States of America. In June 1788, it became the ninth state to ratify the United States Constitution, bringing that document into effect. New Hampshire was the first U.S. state to have its own state constitution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire

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