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Rhode Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1893 words) |
 | Rhode (pronounced "Road") Island is part of the New England region, and was one of the thirteen original American colonies that declared independence against British rule to begin the American Revolution. |
| Rhode Island is bordered on the north and east by Massachusetts, on the west by Connecticut, and on the south by Rhode Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean. |
| Rhode Island was one of the Northern colonies (aka "New England" colonies). |
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| Rhode Island did not send delegates to the constitutional convention in 1787, and there was widespread opposition in the state to ratifying the Constitution. |
| Rhode Island was the last of the original 13 states to ratify the Constitution and did so with the narrowest margin, a vote of 34 to 32 on May 29, 1790. |
| Rhode Island’s economic boom of the mid-1980s was followed by a sharp recession beginning in 1989, during which the state’s credit union system collapsed, property values plummeted, unemployment rose, and thousands of manufacturing jobs were lost, even in the jewelry industry. |
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