Statehood Year Quiz
Pick the year each state was admitted to the Union. 50 questions in total.
Statehood Year Quiz — all 50 questions
Q1In which year did Oregon become a state?
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1859
Oregon became a state in 1859, admitted after years as the disputed Oregon Country, once jointly claimed with Britain.
Q2In which year did Oklahoma become a state?
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1907
Oklahoma became a state in 1907, formed from the merger of Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory.
Q3In which year did Ohio become a state?
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1803
Ohio became a state in 1803, the first carved from the Northwest Territory to join the Union.
Q4In which year did Colorado become a state?
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1876
Colorado became the 38th state in 1876, entering the Union in the same year the nation celebrated its centennial.
Q5In which year did Tennessee become a state?
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1796
Tennessee became a state in 1796, the first admitted from territory acquired after the original thirteen colonies.
Q6In which year did Mississippi become a state?
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1817
Mississippi became the 20th state in 1817, admitted as a slave state as the cotton economy expanded across the Deep South.
Q7In which year did Illinois become a state?
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1818
Illinois became the 21st state in 1818, the third state formed from the Northwest Territory after Ohio and Indiana.
Q8In which year did Massachusetts become a state?
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1788
Massachusetts became the 6th state in 1788, one of the original thirteen colonies that ratified the US Constitution.
Q9In which year did Connecticut become a state?
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1788
Connecticut became the 5th state in 1788, one of the original thirteen colonies that ratified the US Constitution.
Q10In which year did Kentucky become a state?
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1792
Kentucky became the 15th state in 1792, formed from territory that had originally been part of Virginia.
Q11In which year did Maine become a state?
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1820
Maine became the 23rd state in 1820, admitted as a free state under the Missouri Compromise, which balanced free and slave states.
Q12In which year did Alabama become a state?
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1819
Alabama became the 22nd state in 1819, carved from the former Mississippi Territory after Mississippi itself gained statehood two years earlier.
Q13In which year did New York become a state?
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1788
New York ratified the Constitution in 1788, becoming the eleventh state to join the Union.
Q14In which year did Michigan become a state?
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1837
Michigan became the 26th state in 1837, admitted as a free state the year after slave-state Arkansas, preserving sectional balance in Congress.
Q15In which year did Rhode Island become a state?
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1790
Rhode Island ratified the Constitution in 1790, becoming the last of the original thirteen colonies to join the Union.
Q16In which year did Iowa become a state?
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1846
Iowa became the 29th state in 1846, admitted as a free state as territorial settlement pushed west of the Mississippi River.
Q17In which year did Hawaii become a state?
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1959
Hawaii became the 50th state in 1959, the most recent state admitted and the only one made up entirely of islands.
Q18In which year did North Carolina become a state?
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1789
North Carolina ratified the Constitution in 1789, becoming the twelfth state after initially rejecting it in 1788.
Q19In which year did Maryland become a state?
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1788
Maryland became the 7th state in 1788, one of the original thirteen colonies that ratified the US Constitution.
Q20In which year did Montana become a state?
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1889
Montana joined the Union in 1889, one of four states admitted that November alongside North Dakota, South Dakota, and Washington.
Q21In which year did Alaska become a state?
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1959
Alaska became the 49th state in 1959, having been purchased by the United States from Russia nearly a century earlier, in 1867.
Q22In which year did North Dakota become a state?
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1889
North Dakota joined the Union in 1889, admitted the same day as South Dakota alongside Montana and Washington.
Q23In which year did California become a state?
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1850
California became the 31st state in 1850, admitted directly without first passing through a formal territorial stage.
Q24In which year did Virginia become a state?
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1788
Virginia ratified the Constitution in 1788, becoming the tenth state to join the Union, one of the original thirteen colonies.
Q25In which year did Wisconsin become a state?
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1848
Wisconsin became a state in 1848, the last state formed entirely from the lands of the old Northwest Territory.
Q26In which year did Utah become a state?
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1896
Utah became a state in 1896, after decades of delay tied to disputes over polygamy practiced by early settlers.
Q27In which year did Idaho become a state?
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1890
Idaho became the 43rd state in 1890, admitted the same year as Wyoming as territorial settlement in the West continued.
Q28In which year did South Carolina become a state?
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1788
South Carolina ratified the Constitution in 1788, becoming the eighth state to join the Union.
Q29In which year did South Dakota become a state?
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1889
South Dakota joined the Union in 1889, admitted the same day as North Dakota alongside Montana and Washington.
Q30In which year did Indiana become a state?
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1816
Indiana became the 19th state in 1816, the second state carved from the Northwest Territory, following Ohio's admission in 1803.
Q31In which year did Kansas become a state?
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1861
Kansas became the 34th state in 1861, admitted as a free state just months before the outbreak of the Civil War.
Q32In which year did Nevada become a state?
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1864
Nevada became a state in 1864, admitted during the Civil War in part to help secure votes for the Union.
Q33In which year did Georgia become a state?
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1788
Georgia became the 4th state in 1788, one of the original thirteen colonies that ratified the US Constitution.
Q34In which year did Nebraska become a state?
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1867
Nebraska joined the Union in 1867, only two years after the Civil War ended, as railroads and homesteaders pushed settlement onto the Great Plains.
Q35In which year did Delaware become a state?
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1787
Delaware became the 1st state in 1787, ratifying the US Constitution ahead of every other state.
Q36In which year did New Hampshire become a state?
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1788
New Hampshire ratified the Constitution in 1788, becoming the ninth state and providing the deciding vote that put the Constitution into effect.
Q37In which year did Florida become a state?
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1845
Florida became the 27th state in 1845, more than two decades after the United States acquired the territory from Spain in 1819.
Q38In which year did Vermont become a state?
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1791
Vermont joined the Union in 1791, becoming the fourteenth state and the first admitted after the original thirteen colonies.
Q39In which year did Texas become a state?
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1845
Texas became a state in 1845, after nearly a decade as the independent Republic of Texas following its 1836 revolution.
Q40In which year did New Jersey become a state?
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1787
New Jersey ratified the Constitution in 1787, becoming the third state to join the Union, just days after Pennsylvania.
Q41In which year did New Mexico become a state?
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1912
New Mexico became a state in 1912, the same year as neighboring Arizona, after decades as a U.S. territory.
Q42In which year did West Virginia become a state?
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1863
West Virginia became a state in 1863, formed from counties that broke away from Virginia during the Civil War.
Q43In which year did Arizona become a state?
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1912
Arizona became the 48th state in 1912, the last of the contiguous 48 states to be admitted to the Union.
Q44In which year did Minnesota become a state?
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1858
Minnesota became the 32nd state in 1858, admitted as a free state a few years before the outbreak of the Civil War.
Q45In which year did Pennsylvania become a state?
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1787
Pennsylvania ratified the Constitution in 1787, becoming the second state to join the Union just days after Delaware.
Q46In which year did Washington become a state?
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1889
Washington joined the Union in 1889, admitted alongside Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota that November.
Q47In which year did Missouri become a state?
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1821
Missouri became the 24th state in 1821, admitted as a slave state under the Missouri Compromise, alongside free-state Maine.
Q48In which year did Louisiana become a state?
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1812
Louisiana became the 18th state in 1812, the first state formed from the Louisiana Purchase territory bought from France in 1803.
Q49In which year did Arkansas become a state?
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1836
Arkansas became the 25th state in 1836, admitted as a slave state, with free-state Michigan following the next year to keep sectional balance.
Q50In which year did Wyoming become a state?
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1890
Wyoming became a state in 1890, the year after Montana and the Dakotas, rounding out the northern Rocky Mountain states.