What is the 13th state?

What is the 13th state?

Rhode Island
On this date, Rhode Island became the 13th state to enter the Union after ratifying the Constitution. Ironically, the new state’s late arrival came after the new federal government commenced on April 1, 1789, and the First Congress (1789–1791) had already passed 12 proposed amendments to the Constitution.

What is the 17th state?

Ohio
Ohio is well-known as the 17th state admitted into the United States in 1803. The land now known as Ohio was part of the Northwest Territory.

What state was the 16th state?

Tennessee
Tennessee became the 16th state of the union in 1796. It is just 112 miles wide, but stretches 432 miles from the Appalachian Mountains boundary with North Carolina in the east to the Mississippi River borders with Missouri and Arkansas in the west.

What is the 20th state?

Mississippi
Mississippi joined the Union as the 20th state in 1817 and gets its name from the Mississippi River, which forms its western border. Early inhabitants of the area that became Mississippi included the Choctaw, Natchez and Chickasaw.

What is the 5th state?

Bose-Einstein Condensate
Sometimes referred to as the ‘fifth state of matter’, a Bose-Einstein Condensate is a state of matter created when particles, called bosons, are cooled to near absolute zero (-273.15 degrees Celsius, or -460 degrees Fahrenheit).

What is the 2nd state?

List of U.S. states and their order to statehood

State	Date (admitted or ratified)
1	Delaware	December 7, 1787 (ratified)
2	Pennsylvania	December 12, 1787 (ratified)
3	New Jersey	December 18, 1787 (ratified)
4	Georgia	January 2, 1788 (ratified)

What is the 6th state?

Massachusetts

Massachusetts
Map of the United States with Massachusetts highlighted
Country	United States
Before statehood	Province of Massachusetts Bay
Admitted to the Union	February 6, 1788 (6th)

Why is there 52 stars on the flag?

USA has had 50 states since 1959. The District of Columbia is a federal district, not a state. Many lists include DC and Puerto Rico, which makes for 52 “states and other jurisdictions”. The flag has 50 stars, one for each state.

What was the 2nd state?

List of U.S. states

State	Date (admitted or ratified)
1	Delaware	December 7, 1787 (ratified)
2	Pennsylvania	December 12, 1787 (ratified)
3	New Jersey	December 18, 1787 (ratified)
4	Georgia	January 2, 1788 (ratified)

What’s the oldest state?

List of U.S. states

State	Formed from
1	Delaware	Colony of Delaware
2	Pennsylvania	Proprietary Province of Pennsylvania
3	New Jersey	Crown Colony of New Jersey
4	Georgia	Crown Colony of Georgia

What is the 7th state?

Maryland
Dates of Succession to the Union

1	Delaware	1787
6	Massachusetts	1788
7	Maryland	1788
8	South Carolina	1788
9	New Hampshire	1788