The Making of the 50 States: Kentucky
Part 2: The Rest of the Story
The Kentucky territory had, since the 1760s, been nominally owned by Virginia. Disagreements between Kentucky settlers and the Virginia state government resulted in a call for a Kentucky constitutional convention, in 1784. Virginia granted Kentucky its "freedom" in 1788, and Congress began to consider Kentucky statehood not long after that.
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