From 1703 to 1738 New York and New Jersey shared a governor.
Merchants at the port of Wilmington had trading ties with the British. So it was that New Castle lawyer Thomas McKean denounced the Stamp Act in the strongest terms, and Kent County native John Dickinson became the "Penman of the Revolution." Anticipating the Declaration of Independence, Patriot leaders Thomas McKean and Caesar Rodney convinced the Colonial Assembly to declare itself separated from British and Pennsylvania rule on June 15, 1776.
In August 1777 General Sir William Howe led a British army through Delaware on his way to a victory at the Battle of Brandywine and capture of the city of Philadelphia.
The only real engagement on Delaware soil was the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, fought on September 3, 1777, at Cooch's Bridge in New Castle County, although there was a minor Loyalist rebellion in 1778. Following the Battle of Brandywine, Wilmington was occupied by the British, and State President John McKinly was taken prisoner.
When John Dickinson freed his slaves in 1777, he was Delaware's largest slave owner with 37 slaves.
The only real engagement on Delaware soil was the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, fought on September 3, 1777, at Cooch's Bridge in New Castle County, although there was a minor Loyalist rebellion in 1778. Following the Battle of Brandywine, Wilmington was occupied by the British, and State President John McKinly was taken prisoner.
On December 7, 1787, Delaware became the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, and has since been known as The First State.
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This followed the 1793 establishment in Philadelphia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church by Richard Allen, which had ties to the Methodist Episcopal Church until 1816.
By 1810 three-quarters of all blacks in Delaware were free.
By the 1860 census on the verge of the Civil War, 91.7% of the black population were free; 1,798 were slaves, as compared to 19,829 "free colored persons". An independent black denomination was chartered in 1813 by freed slave Peter Spencer as the "Union Church of Africans".
In 1814, Spencer called for the first annual gathering, known as the Big August Quarterly, which continues to draw members of this denomination and their descendants together in a religious and cultural festival. Delaware voted against secession on January 3, 1861, and so remained in the Union.
This followed the 1793 establishment in Philadelphia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church by Richard Allen, which had ties to the Methodist Episcopal Church until 1816.
By 1860, the largest slaveholder owned 16 slaves. Although attempts to abolish slavery failed by narrow margins in the legislature, in practical terms the state had mostly ended the practice.
By the 1860 census on the verge of the Civil War, 91.7% of the black population were free; 1,798 were slaves, as compared to 19,829 "free colored persons". An independent black denomination was chartered in 1813 by freed slave Peter Spencer as the "Union Church of Africans".
Investment in manufacturing in the city grew from $5.5 million in 1860 to $44 million in 1900.
In 1814, Spencer called for the first annual gathering, known as the Big August Quarterly, which continues to draw members of this denomination and their descendants together in a religious and cultural festival. Delaware voted against secession on January 3, 1861, and so remained in the Union.
Delaware essentially freed the few slaves who were still in bondage shortly after the Civil War but rejected the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution; the 13th Amendment was rejected on February 8, 1865, the 14th Amendment was rejected on February 8, 1867, and the 15th Amendment was rejected on March 18, 1869.
The Democratic legislatures declared blacks second-class citizens in 1866 and restricted their voting rights despite the Fifteenth Amendment, ensuring continued Democratic success throughout most of the nineteenth century. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, the Wilmington area grew into a manufacturing center.
Delaware essentially freed the few slaves who were still in bondage shortly after the Civil War but rejected the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution; the 13th Amendment was rejected on February 8, 1865, the 14th Amendment was rejected on February 8, 1867, and the 15th Amendment was rejected on March 18, 1869.
Delaware essentially freed the few slaves who were still in bondage shortly after the Civil War but rejected the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution; the 13th Amendment was rejected on February 8, 1865, the 14th Amendment was rejected on February 8, 1867, and the 15th Amendment was rejected on March 18, 1869.
The all-time record low of was also recorded at Millsboro, on January 17, 1893.
However, the subsequent 1897 constitution did not proportionally represent the north and continued to give the southern counties disproportionate influence. As manufacturing expanded, businesses became major players in state affairs and funders of politicians through families such as the Du Ponts.
military personnel (and some civilians) who die overseas. ==Law and government== Delaware's fourth and current constitution, adopted in 1897, provides for executive, judicial and legislative branches. ===Legislative branch=== The Delaware General Assembly consists of a House of Representatives with 41 members and a Senate with 21 members.
Investment in manufacturing in the city grew from $5.5 million in 1860 to $44 million in 1900.
Delaware officially ratified the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments on February 12, 1901. ===Reconstruction and Industrialization=== After the Civil War, Democratic governments led by the state's Bourbon aristocracy continued to dominate the state and imposed an explicitly white supremacist regime in the state.
Additionally, the company invested heavily in the expansion of public schools in the state and colleges such as the University of Delaware in the 1910s and 1920s.
The Amish first settled in Kent County in 1915.
Additionally, the company invested heavily in the expansion of public schools in the state and colleges such as the University of Delaware in the 1910s and 1920s.
Dover International Speedway is a race track in Dover, and Frawley Stadium in Wilmington is the home of the Wilmington Blue Rocks, a Minor League Baseball team. ==Education== In the early 1920s, Pierre S.
The Wedge of land between the northwest part of the arc and the Maryland border was claimed by both Delaware and Pennsylvania until 1921, when Delaware's claim was confirmed. ===Topography=== Delaware is on a level plain, with the lowest mean elevation of any state in the nation.
Delaware's all-time record high of was recorded at Millsboro on July 21, 1930.
In the 1940s and 1950s, the state attempted to integrate its schools.
The University of Delaware admitted its first black student in 1948, and local courts ruled that primary schools had to be integrated.
The proportion of blacks constituting the city's population rose from 15% in 1950 to over 50% by 1980.
In the 1940s and 1950s, the state attempted to integrate its schools.
About 30 percent of all Delaware bridges were built before 1950, and about 60 percent of the number are included in the National Bridge Inventory.
state to use judicial corporal punishment, in 1952. ===Executive branch=== The executive branch is headed by the Governor of Delaware.
Until the 2000 presidential election, the state tended to be a Presidential bellwether, sending its three electoral votes to the winning candidate since 1952.
Board of Education. However, integration only encouraged more white flight, and poor economic conditions for the black population led to some violence during the 1960s.
The counties were historically divided into hundreds, which were used as tax reporting and voting districts until the 1960s, but now serve no administrative role, their only current official legal use being in real estate title descriptions. ===Politics=== The Democratic Party holds a plurality of registrations in Delaware.
CSX connects with the freight/[railroad|heritage] operation, the Wilmington and Western Railroad, based in Wilmington and the East Penn Railroad, which operates a line from Wilmington to Coatesville, Pennsylvania. The last north–south passenger trains through the main part of Delaware was the Pennsylvania Railroad's local Wilmington-Delmar train in 1965.
Riots broke out in Wilmington in 1967 and again in 1968 in response to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr after which the National Guard occupied the city for nine months to prevent further violence. Since WWII, the state has been generally economically prosperous and enjoyed relatively high per capita income because of its location between major cities like Philadelphia, New York, and Washington, DC.
Riots broke out in Wilmington in 1967 and again in 1968 in response to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr after which the National Guard occupied the city for nine months to prevent further violence. Since WWII, the state has been generally economically prosperous and enjoyed relatively high per capita income because of its location between major cities like Philadelphia, New York, and Washington, DC.
Obama's running mate was Joe Biden, who had represented Delaware in the United States Senate since 1973 and was later inaugurated President of the United States in 2021.
The proportion of blacks constituting the city's population rose from 15% in 1950 to over 50% by 1980.
Funding for DelDOT projects is drawn, in part, from the Delaware Transportation Trust Fund, established in 1987 to help stabilize transportation funding; the availability of the Trust led to a gradual separation of DelDOT operations from other Delaware state operations.
, fees for the paratransit service have not changed since 1988. ===Air=== , there is no scheduled air service from any Delaware airport, as has been the case in various years since 1991.
New Castle County has not voted Republican in a presidential election since 1988.
By 1990, only 50% of Delaware's population consisted of natives to the state. ==Geography== Delaware is long and ranges from to across, totaling , making it the second-smallest state in the United States after Rhode Island.
, fees for the paratransit service have not changed since 1988. ===Air=== , there is no scheduled air service from any Delaware airport, as has been the case in various years since 1991.
In 1992, 2000, 2004, and 2016, the Republican presidential candidate carried both Kent and Sussex but lost by double digits each time in New Castle County, which was a large enough margin to swing the state to the Democrats.
New Castle County also elects a substantial majority of the legislature; 27 of the 41 state house districts and 14 of the 21 state senate districts are based in New Castle County. The Democrats have held the governorship since 1993, having won the last seven gubernatorial elections in a row.
This centralized system, combined with the small size of the state, likely contributed to Delaware becoming the first state, after completion of a three-year, $30million program ending in 1999, to wire every K-12 classroom in the state to the Internet. , the Delaware Department of Education had authorized the founding of 25 charter schools in the state, one of them being all-girls. All teachers in the State's public school districts are unionized.
Until the 2000 presidential election, the state tended to be a Presidential bellwether, sending its three electoral votes to the winning candidate since 1952.
This trend ended in 2000 when Delaware's electoral votes went to Al Gore by 13 percentage points.
In 1992, 2000, 2004, and 2016, the Republican presidential candidate carried both Kent and Sussex but lost by double digits each time in New Castle County, which was a large enough margin to swing the state to the Democrats.
Until 2003, Delaware was among the several states enforcing blue laws and banned the sale of liquor on Sunday. ==Media== === Newspapers === Two daily newspapers are based in Delaware, the Delaware State News, based in Dover and covering the two southern counties, and The News Journal covering Wilmington and northern Delaware.
This was a successor to the Del-Mar-Va Express and Cavalier, which had run from Philadelphia through the state's interior, to the end of the Delmarva Peninsula until the mid-1950s. The DART First State public transportation system was named "Most Outstanding Public Transportation System" in 2003 by the American Public Transportation Association.
In 2004, John Kerry won Delaware by eight percentage points.
In 1992, 2000, 2004, and 2016, the Republican presidential candidate carried both Kent and Sussex but lost by double digits each time in New Castle County, which was a large enough margin to swing the state to the Democrats.
In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama defeated Republican John McCain in Delaware by 25 percentage points.
Although "USA (Delaware)" ranked as the world's most opaque jurisdiction on the Tax Justice Network's 2009 Financial Secrecy Index, the same group's 2011 Index ranks the U.S.
In 2009, DelDOT maintained 13,507 lane-miles, totaling 89 percent of the state's public roadway system, the rest being under the supervision of individual municipalities.
states (Maine, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming) that do not have a single city with a population over 100,000 as of the 2010 census.
The number of same-sex couple households in 2010 stood at 2,646.
The Association of Religion Data Archives reported in 2010 that the three largest denominational groups in Delaware by number of adherents are the Catholic Church at 182,532 adherents, the United Methodist Church with 53,656 members reported, and non-denominational Evangelical Protestant with 22,973 adherents reported.
For instance, the casino at Delaware Park Racetrack provided more than $100million to the state in 2010. In June 2018, Delaware became the first U.S.
Although "USA (Delaware)" ranked as the world's most opaque jurisdiction on the Tax Justice Network's 2009 Financial Secrecy Index, the same group's 2011 Index ranks the U.S.
In 2011 Delaware passed legislation placing a 15 business day time limit on addressing freedom-of-information requests, to either produce information or an explanation of why such information would take longer than this time to produce. ===Taxation=== Tax is collected by the Delaware Division of Revenue. Delaware has six different income tax brackets, ranging from 2.2% to 5.95%.
Neither bill was passed in the legislature. ===Sexual orientation=== A 2012 Gallup poll found that Delaware's proportion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender adults stood at 3.4 percent of the population.
In recent years, increasing development has led to the decline in the number of Amish living in the community. A 2012 survey of religious attitudes in the United States found that 34% of Delaware residents considered themselves "moderately religious", 33% "very religious", and 33% as "non-religious".
Obama carried Delaware by 19 percentage points in 2012.
On July 1, 2013, same-sex marriage was legalized, and all civil unions would be converted into marriages. ===Religion=== , Delaware is mostly Christian.
At the 2014 Pew Research survey, 23% of the population were irreligious. ==Economy== ===Affluence=== According to a 2020 study by Kiplinger, Delaware had the seventeenth largest number of millionaires per capita in the United States, with a ratio of 6.98 percent, 0.7 percent from 2013 in ration but falling eight places in ranking.
At the 2014 Pew Research survey, 23% of the population were irreligious. ==Economy== ===Affluence=== According to a 2020 study by Kiplinger, Delaware had the seventeenth largest number of millionaires per capita in the United States, with a ratio of 6.98 percent, 0.7 percent from 2013 in ration but falling eight places in ranking.
Democrats presently hold all the nine statewide elected offices, while the Republicans last won two statewide offices in 2014, State Auditor and State Treasurer. ===Freedom of information=== Each of the 50 states of the United States has passed some form of freedom of information legislation, which provides a mechanism for the general public to request information of the government.
Delaware saw 8.5million visitors in 2015, with the tourism industry employing 41,730 people, making it the 4th largest private employer in the state.
Various airlines had served Wilmington Airport, the latest departure being Frontier Airlines in April 2015. Delaware is centrally situated in the Northeast megalopolis region of cities along I-95.
It is the only co-located horse- and car-racing facility in the nation, with the Dover Downs track located inside the DIS track. Delaware is represented in rugby by the Delaware Black Foxes, a 2015 expansion club. Delaware has been home to professional wrestling outfit Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW).
In 2016, Delaware's electoral votes went to Hillary Clinton by 11 percentage points.
In 1992, 2000, 2004, and 2016, the Republican presidential candidate carried both Kent and Sussex but lost by double digits each time in New Castle County, which was a large enough margin to swing the state to the Democrats.
and Dow Chemical Company into DowDuPont took place on September 1, 2017. ===Incorporation in Delaware=== More than half of all U.S.
The present governor is John Carney (Democrat), who took office January 17, 2017.
and in top 201–250 in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018) Wesley College Widener University School of Law Wilmington University ==Transportation== The transportation system in Delaware is under the governance and supervision of the Delaware Department of Transportation, also known as "DelDOT".
For instance, the casino at Delaware Park Racetrack provided more than $100million to the state in 2010. In June 2018, Delaware became the first U.S.
At the 2014 Pew Research survey, 23% of the population were irreligious. ==Economy== ===Affluence=== According to a 2020 study by Kiplinger, Delaware had the seventeenth largest number of millionaires per capita in the United States, with a ratio of 6.98 percent, 0.7 percent from 2013 in ration but falling eight places in ranking.
Delaware had 25,937 millionaires as of 2020.
In 2020, Democratic nominee, former vice president and Delaware resident Joe Biden beat incumbent President Donald Trump in the state by over 19 percentage points.
Obama's running mate was Joe Biden, who had represented Delaware in the United States Senate since 1973 and was later inaugurated President of the United States in 2021.
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