Rhode Island became the last of North America’s revolutionary thirteen colonies to ratify the United States Constitution, on May 29, 1790.
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Rhode Island became the last of North America’s revolutionary thirteen colonies to ratify the United States Constitution, on May 29, 1790.
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Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was the first former British North American colony to become a former colony; the legislature declared its independence on 4 May 1776.