A territory.
North Carolina became a state on 21 November 1789.
Idaho
Illinois and Michigan both became states before Wisconsin.
Arizona was the 48th US State and it got statehood 47 years before Alaska became the 49th US State Arizona became a State in the same year that Alaska became a formal US Territory.
Before, it was territory controlled by Massachusetts. Then it later became a state.
it was a territory and became a state in the civil war
Indiana became the 19th State in 1816 and Illinois became the 21st State in 1818.
The 1880 US Census shows that 36,909 people lived in the area which became the US state of North Dakota. The 1870 US Census shows a population of 2,405 people.
California became a state before Nevada
Minnesota
before Washington became a state, it was part of Columbia, and called the "district of Columbia" That is also what D.C. stands for.
Land
it was desert
A territory.
a colony
Louisiana became a state on April 30, 1812. It became the 18th state of the country.