Was Texas the 1st 2nd or 3rd state to join the union?

Answer 1

Texas was the 28th state admitted to the Union - hence the 15th after the original 13 colonies.

After the Civil war, it was the 11th former Confederate state readmitted to the Union - the 10th under Reconstruction (Tennessee managed to get readmitted before the Reconstruction Acts took effect).

Answer 2

The 50 states joined the union in the following order: Delaware (1787), Pennsylvania (1787), New Jersey (1787), Georgia (1788), Connecticut (1788), Massachusetts (1788), Maryland (1788), South Carolina (1788), New Hampshire (1788), Virginia (1788), New York (1788), North Carolina (1789), Rhode Island (1790), Vermont (1791), Kentucky (1792), Tennessee (1796), Ohio (1803), Louisiana (1812), Indiana (1816), Mississippi (1817), Illinois (1818), Alabama (1819), Maine (1820), Missouri (1821), Arkansas (1836), Michigan (1837), Florida (1845), Texas (1845), Iowa (1846), Wisconsin (1848), California (1850), Minnesota (1858), Oregon (1859), Kansas (1861), West Virginia (1863), Nevada (1864), Nebraska (1867), Colorado (1876), North Dakota (1889), South Dakota (1889), Montana (1889), Washington (1889), Idaho (1890), Wyoming (1890), Utah (1896), Oklahoma (1907), New Mexico (1912), Arizona (1912), Alaska (1959), and Hawaii (1959).

Answer 3

No, it was none of those. Tennessee was the 16th state. You might therefore consider it to be the third state to join the US other than the original thirteen founding states, if you like, but this terminology is confusing and nonstandard.

Answer 4

Indiana was nineteenth.