Pretensions to statehood therefore rose with the rising tide of population.
Far over on the western coast, the claims of Washington to statehoodwere being urged.
With less claim to statehood than any commonwealths admitted up to that time, except Nevada, the two territories of Idaho and Wyoming were soon enabled, by the assistance of the politicians, to secure admission to the Union.
Six years before statehood one private college had been established, and the University of North Dakota had opened its doors and was offering courses in the arts and sciences to ambitious pioneer youth.
By the time statehood was attained farmhouses and towns had broken up the barren loneliness of the prairies.
At the beginning of statehood North Dakota had been subject to a rather autocratic form of government in spite of decidedly democratic constitutional provisions.
Of the States which had seceded, two, Arkansas and Tennessee, had endeavored to reconstruct themselves as members of the Union; and their renewed statehood had received some recognition from the President.
The executive might recognize statehood in some matters; Congress might refuse to recognize it in other matters.
As the basis of the Law of Nations is the common consent of the civilised States, statehood alone does not include membership of the Family of Nations.
There is no doubt thatstatehood itself is independent of recognition.
The Hawaii Statehood Act of 1959 did not include Palmyra Atoll, which is now privately owned by the Nature Conservancy.
The declaration of the universal right of free statehood is not only made in the statement that "to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
The conception of the universal right of free statehood is reached, in the Declaration, through a series of three propositions, each stated to be self-evident, and yet all forming a sequence.
Nor does it interfere with the right of free statehood when an external power stands by merely to see that the local government ascertains and executes the just local sentiment to a proper extent.
Statehood and self-government are two different and distinct conceptions.
This doctrine of free statehood as a universal right is, as I understand it, the central idea of the Declaration.
Two years after the attainment of statehood her legislature passed the first divorce statute, granting jurisdiction to the circuit courts.
They were determined, however, not to do so tamely but to teach their sons, brothers and all others the value of equal suffrage, and to use every effort in their power toward securing it whenever Statehood should be conferred.
There was considerable agitation by the public press; some newspapers favored the women's voting and others thought its legality would be questioned and thus the admission to Statehood would be hindered.
Bartch and himself had reached the conclusion that the Edmunds-Tucker Law had not been repealed and would remain effective till Statehood was achieved, and that he would file a written opinion reversing the judgment of the lower court.
But when Utah was about to be admitted to statehood the men in framing their constitution restored the suffrage to women.
In February, 1894, Mrs. Wells called an assembly of citizens for the purpose of arousing a greater interest in a Statehood which should include equal rights for women as well as men.
Livermore to the constitutional conventions which were preparing for Statehood in Dakota, Washington, Montana and Idaho.
The figure was probably excessive; at all events, contemporaries testify that so eager were the people for statehood that many were counted twice, and even emigrants were counted as they passed through the Territory.
With that, every Mormon effort of lying promise and pretense of purity were put forward to bring statehood about.
To be sure, as a State Utah had her laws against plural marriages, and provided a punishment for the bigamist; the general government would consent to nothing less as the price of that statehood prayed for.
Note: The press dispatches indicate that Uncle Joe Cannon, Speaker of the House of Representatives, is doing all he can to defeat the Statehood bill.
We're undone if they keep knocking on the Statehood Bill!
For the women all are knocking on the Statehood Bill!
Vanished now the dreams of sal'ry and the offices to fill, For the women all are knocking on the Statehood Bill!
Statehood and "manana" are putting up a fierce contest to become exact synonyms.
And we shouted out the story of our deeds with honest will;-- But the women now are knocking on the Statehood Bill!
We have seen how steadily the politicians of California at Washington stood by the Mormons in their earlier days, when they were seeking statehood and opposing any federal control of their affairs.
He declared that the demand for statehood should not be entertained unless it was "clearly shown that there is a sufficient population" and "that the people are loyal to the federal government and the laws.
The Republican Territorial Committee a few days later voted that a division of the people on national party lines would result only in statehood controlled by the Mormon theocracy.
Let those who liked bother about statehood and government and politics; the average man was too busy digging and spending gold to trouble over such matters.
Likewise, when these people were admitted tostatehood at the end of their period of probation, it would be done by an act of Congress, and not by the States.
Under this provision, portions of the Florida Purchase were added to adjacent States and the residue compelled to wait twenty-five years before statehood was given to it.
During nine years the people of the Louisiana territory had to serve in preparation under the rule of the rights-of-man party, before the first portion was erected to statehood on an equality with the older States.
In his second message, the President sent to Congress a petition for statehood from an authorised convention of the people inhabiting the district of Kentucky, together with a permission to that end from the parent State, Virginia.
A petition for statehood from the settlers in Kentucky, the second in the long list of additions to the Union, reached Congress, accompanied by the consent of Virginia to the severance of her western district.
The standard for statehood was fixed definitely in the later ordinance at sixty thousand free inhabitants.
In his Ordinance of 1784, Jefferson had provided for eventual and not immediate statehood for the inhabitants of the Western territory.
Moreover, Napoleon had sufficient thought for these pawns in the game of diplomacy to insert in the treaty of cession a provision that statehood should be given them "as soon as possible.
But with the addition of new provinces from time to time, the holding of territories preliminary to statehood must be indefinitely prolonged.
The contest culminated in the campaign for statehood in 1818.
The divisionists, however, seem to have been animated mainly by the desire to secure the introduction of slavery as soon as statehood could be attained for their section.
Up to this point the phases through which the movement for statehood in Kentucky had passed were almost exactly the same as the phases of the similar movement in Franklin.
Another irritating delay in the march toward statehood now occurred.
The convention met in September, 1787, and acted with order and propriety, passing an act which provided for statehood upon the terms and conditions laid down by Virginia.
All were more or less identified both with the obscure separatist movements in that commonwealth, and with the legitimate agitation for statehood into which some of these movements insensibly merged.
Now as statehood advanced in the later eighties, and as population piled up around the edges of the reserve, the time was ripe for the medicine-men to preach the coming of a Messiah, and for Sitting Bull to increase his personal following.
When the statehood convention met in Denver on June 6, the time was inopportune for concluding the movement, since the reaction had set in.
Biggars, president, had a prominent place, as the association had been helping its women during the past year in an effort to have the convention which was framing a constitution for statehood put in a clause for woman suffrage.
At the beginning of the 58th Congress a bill passed the Lower House providing for the admission to Statehood of Oklahoma, Indian, Arizona and New Mexico Territories under the names of Oklahoma and Arizona.
An outstanding feature of the year's achievements was what was known as the Statehood Protest.
Montana, less advanced than Dakota, and Idaho and Wyoming which were yet more primitive, joined the forces of the statehood advocates.
For party purposes, the Democrats resisted the demands for statehood until the election of 1888 insured Republican control through every branch of the United States Government.
Before the last continental railway was finished, the Territories were asking for statehood and were showing advance in population to justify it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "statehood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: independence; internationalism; nationalism; nationality; sovereignty
