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December 7, 1787 - Delaware is the 1st state to ratify the Constitution gaining its distinction as the "First State".
Area - 2,397 sq. miles Capital - Dover © Copyright 2005 Roger W Hancock
Motto - Liberty and Independence. Nickname - First State, Diamond State, Blue Hen State, Small Wonder

- Caesar Rodney, Thomas McKean, and George Read represent Delaware at the First Continental Congress in 1774.
- Three lower counties of Pennsylvania, in 1776, break away adopting a constitution becoming the Delaware State. Delaware was the first of the colonies to call themselves a state.
- 1776, Delaware Assembly declares its independence from England.
- New Castle is replaced by Dover as state capital in 1777.
- Delaware Assembly, in 1779, ratifies Articles of Confederation.
- The US Constitutional Convention of 1787 gives the states the right to set voting qualifications. Women lose the right to vote in Delaware.
- Delaware is the 1st state to ratify the Constitution in 1787, gaining its distinction as the "First State".
- Delaware Free School Act passed in 1829 by the legislature created the first public schools in the state.
- Delaware legislature rejects President Lincoln's offer to buy its slaves in 1862.
- In 1865 The Delaware legislature votes against the abolishment of slavery (Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution). © Copyright 2005 Roger W Hancock
- In 1868 the Delaware legislature votes against the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees equal protection for all races under the law.
- In 1870 the Delaware legislature votes against the Fifteenth Amendment to guarantee blacks the right to vote.
- State legislature in 1875 creates separate school funding for white children and African American children.
- A law passes in 1889 to prohibit punishment of women at whipping post or pillory.
- In 1901 the Delaware Legislature ratifies the 13^th, 14^th, and 15^th Amendments to the United States Constitution.
- Delaware General Assembly outlaws racial segregation in public accommodations in 1963.
- Herman Holloway, Sr. in 1964 becomes the first black elected to Delaware's State Senate.
- S.B. Woo is elected lieutenant governor. He becomes the highest-ranking Asian-American official in the U. S.
- 2000 sees the election of Delaware's first woman governor, Ruth Ann Minner.

One Vote Counts in Delaware.
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