<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island" id="mwcA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a> becomes the last of North America's original <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" id="mwcQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Thirteen Colonies">Thirteen Colonies</a> to ratify the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution" id="mwcg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Constitution">Constitution</a> and become one of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" id="mwcw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States">United States</a>.<sup about="#mwt35" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"}}' id="cite_ref-5" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_29#cite_note-5" id="mwdA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwdQ">[5]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"><cite about="#mwt32" class="citation book cs1" id="mwCDc"><a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=_FAv39yCUYcC&amp;pg=PA170" id="mwCDg" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCDk">Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States</i></a>. Published for John Conrad and Company. 1855. p.<span id="mwCDo" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>170.</cite><span about="#mwt32" class="Z3988" id="mwCDs" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Reports+of+Cases+Argued+and+Adjudged+in+the+Supreme+Court+of+the+United+States&amp;rft.pages=170&amp;rft.pub=Published+for+John+Conrad+and+Company&amp;rft.date=1855&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D_FAv39yCUYcC%26pg%3DPA170&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMay+29"></span></span>