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Delaware was the first state to ratify the United States constitution
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Hershey is considered the Chocolate Capital of the United States
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Atlantic City is where the street names came from for the game monopoly
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Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi River.
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Connecticut State insect is the Praying Mantis.
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Boston built the first subway system in the United States in 1897
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The first dental school in the United States opened at the University of Maryland
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The salamander was given the honor of official state amphibian
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The first potato planted in the United States was at Londonderry Common Field in 1719.
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Seven Presidents are buried in Virginia
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The first American chess tournament was held in New York in 1843
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He successfully attacked the French camp near Jumonville
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The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill is the oldest State University in the United States.
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Rhode Island was the last of the original thirteen colonies to become a state.
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Until 1996, Vermont was the only state without a Wal-Mart.
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The Bluegrass Country around Lexington is home to some of the world's finest racehorses
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A force of disaffected whiskey rebels attacked and destroyed the home of a tax inspector.
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There were more National Guard soldiers deployed from the state for the Gulf War effort than any other state.
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George Washington's Farewell Address is a letter written by the first American President, George Washington, to "The People of the United States of America".
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kept America out of war with France
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Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and following exploration of Lewis and Clark by expanding our country from ocean to ocean for 15 million dollars
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The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills that were passed by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress and signed into law by President John Adams in 1798, the result of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with France, later known as the Quasi-War.
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it was the first time a law of Congress was ever declared unconstitutional, or in conflict with the Constitution
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The first ambulance service was established in Cincinnati in 1865.
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The expedition was commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson shortly after the Louisiana Purchase
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Renewed the charter for the Bank of the United States to raise funds for the War of 1812
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United States took on the greatest naval power in the world. The Republican Congress also raised taxes, including dreaded internal taxes, conditioned on war actually breaking out.
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Eastern brown pelican is the state bird.
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Explorers Lewis and Clark set out from Fort Vincennes on their exploration of the Northwest Territory
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Presided over the highly controversial Missouri Compromise of 1820
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Borden's Condensed Milk was first canned in Liberty
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Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing. Wikipedia
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The Sears Tower, Chicago is the tallest building on the North American continent
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A landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court
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these American settlers in West Florida rebelled
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In 1816, the New Hampshire legislature attempted to change Dartmouth College-- a privately funded institution--into a state university. The legislature changed the school's corporate charter by transferring the control of trustee appointments to the governor. McCulloch was convicted by a Maryland court and fined $2,500.
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Alabama workers built the first rocket to put humans on the moon.
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Arguing that universal public education was the best way to turn the nation's unruly children into disciplined, judicious republican citizens, Mann won widespread approval from modernizers,
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Susan Brownell Anthony was an American social reformer and feminist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17.
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The Missouri Compromise was a federal statute in the United States that regulated slavery in the country's western territories.
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Maine is the only state in the United States whose name has one syllable
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The state animal is the Mule
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the best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere.
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A New York state law gave to individuals the exclusive right to operate steamboats on waters within state jurisdiction.
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supported infrastructural and educational improvements in the shape of federal projects
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Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826
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Paid off the national debt
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The goal of the abolitionist movement was the immediate emancipation of all slaves and the end of racial discrimination and segregation.
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William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer.
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By about mid-day on August 22, Turner decided to march toward Jerusalem Nat Turner hid in several different places
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The Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate. Andrew Jackson was the president at the time.
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Famous singer Johnny Cash was born in Kingsland
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Detroit is known as the car capital of the world.
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Enforced the Indian Removal Act of 1830
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Signed the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 into law.
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Sided with the Confederate government upon the outbreak of the Civil
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Miami installed the first bank automated teller machine especially for rollerbladers
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He led the nation to war with Mexico and acquired large amounts of territory during his term in office.
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This attitude helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with Mexico.
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Texas is popularly known as The Lone Star State.
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Dubuque is the state's oldest city.
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The state is nicknamed the Badger State.
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At the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, N.Y., a woman’s rights convention–the first ever held in the United States–convenes with almost 200 women in attendance
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Resolved, That the equality of human rights results necessarily from the fact of the identity of the race in capabilities and responsibilities.
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Encouraged New Mexico and California to bypass the territorial stage altogether
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Fillmore's greatest accomplishment is the Compromise of 1850
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More turkeys are raised in California than in any other state in the United States.
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Signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854
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Harriet Tubman was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and during the American Civil War, a Union spy. Wikipedia
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Scott's master maintained that no pure-blooded Negro of African descent and the descendant of slaves could be a citizen in the sense of Article III of the Constitution.
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Said to be the worst president ever
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Remembered for his vital role as leader
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement.
