South Carolina was the 8th state to ratify the Constitution. For the Constitution to go into effect, they needed 9 out of 13 states to ratify. The state after South Carolina would be the ninth state.
It was the 8th State to ratify the Constitution and join the Union.
Rhode Island was the last state to ratify the constitution.
after the civil war all the southern states had to ratify the constitution to be readmitted into the union.
Rhode Island and North Carolina were the two states that refused to ratify the Constitution unless there was a Bill of Rights.
It was the 12th state to ratify the Constitution, on November 21, 1789. (Rhode Island was the 13th of the original states to ratify.)
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North Carolina was the 12th state to ratify the United States Constitution. The first state to ratify the Constitution was Delaware.
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Rhode Island, which had previously vetoed the Constitution, called a convention to ratify in 1790 after they were threatened that they would be considered a foreign government unless they did. North Carolina ratified after a Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution.
North Carolina originally did not ratify the Constitution. They chose to wait for the Bill of Rights to be added. Once the Bill of Rights was added, anti Federalists stopped their opposition to join the United States.