georgia
Delaware...the 'first state'...
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The thirteen stars denote Georgia's position as one of the thirteen original colonies.
Colonies
rhode island
Connecticut is known as "The Consitution State" because it was the first of the original thirteen states to ratify the new US Constitution.
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New Hampshire is the northernmost of the original 13 states. Georgia was the southernmost of the original 13 states.
The original thirteen colonies did not have the same shape or area of their equivalent states of today.
The 37 states that were not colonies, Rhode Island, North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Maryland, and Massachusetts.
Vermont was the only Northeastern state that was not one of the thirteen colonies. It was unsettled territory between New York and New Hampshire and could have become part of Canada. However, it became the first state that was not one of the thirteen colonies.
Philadelphia is a city, not a state. It is the capital of Pennsylvania, which was one of the first 13 states.