Put a check beside the original thirteen states which were "admitted" between 1787-1790.

Alabama

Montana

New York

Alaska

Rhode Island

Nebraska

Utah

Maryland

West Virginia

Virginia

Maine

Vermont

Washington

Mississippi

Missouri

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Kentucky

Delaware

Tennessee

Louisiana

Texas

Indiana

Iowa

South Carolina

Kansas

South Dakota

Oklahoma

Idaho

Oregon

Illinois

Pennsylvania

Florida

North Dakota

Georgia

Ohio

Hawaii

Arizona

California

Arkansas

Colorado

Connecticut

New Hampshire

Nevada

New Jersey

New Mexico

North Carolina

1 Delaware Colony Dec. 7, 1787

2 Pennsylvania Colony Dec. 12, 1787

3 New Jersey Colony Dec. 18, 1787

4 Georgia Colony Jan. 2, 1788

5 Connecticut Colony Jan. 9, 1788

6 Massachusetts Colony Feb. 6, 1788

7 Maryland Colony April 28, 1788

8 South Carolina Colony May 23, 1788

9 New Hampshire Colony June 21, 1788

10 Virginia Colony June 25, 1788

11 New York Colony July 26, 1788

12 North Carolina Colony Nov. 21, 1789

13 Rhode Island Colony May 29, 1790

The correct answer is the following.

The original thirteen states which were "admitted" between 1787-1790 were the following: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island.

The delegates that met at the Constitutional Convention of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from May to September 1787, knew they had the difficult task of defining the new dorm of government for the United States after the weak Articles of Confederation. After so many debates, they came up with the US Constitution, after James Madison drafted the Bill of Rights. The next step was the ratification of each state to approve the new COnstitution. And that is how those states became the first 13 admitted.