The original 13 colonies entered the Union from 1787 to 1790, ... No need to grab a map, it's time to learn the states in order of statehood. What was the first state?

Before the upheaval in the 1760s and 1770s, the idea of a united “13 Colonies” was a fiction; they were merely part of a network of more than 20 British colonies in the hemisphere.