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Delaware
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Pennsylvania
In 1909 the first baseball stadium was built in Pittsburgh.
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New Jersey
New Jersey has the most dense system of highways and railroads in the U.S.
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Georgia
Historic Saint Mary's Georgia is the second oldest city in the US. -
Conneticut
Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
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Massachusetts
Boston built the first subway system in the United States in 1897.
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Maryland
In 1830 the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company built the first railroad station in Baltimore.
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South Carolina
More turkeys are raised in California than in any other state in the United States. -
New Hampshire
The first potato planted in the United States was at Londonderry Common Field in 1719. http://www.50states.com/facts/newhamp.htm#.VPexLph0xYc -
Virgina
Virginia was named for England's "Virgin Queen," Elizabeth I. http://www.50states.com/facts/virginia.htm#.VPexpJh0xYc -
New York
The first American chess tournament was held in New York in 1843. http://www.50states.com/facts/newyork.htm#.VPeyEJh0xYc -
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George Washington
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North Carolina
The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill is the oldest State University in the United States. http://www.50states.com/facts/ncarolin.htm#.VPeyWJh0xYc -
Rhode Island
Rhode Island was the last of the original thirteen colonies to become a state http://www.50states.com/facts/rdisl.htm#.VPeyr5h0xYc -
Vermont
Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds. http://www.50states.com/facts/vermont.htm#.VPezBJh0xYc -
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Whiskey Rebellion
Alexandar Hamilton knew that the country needed to bring in more revnue and what better way is putting a tax on Whiskey. A rebellion was created and they attacked the tax insepctors home. Troups were brought in and arrested many. All of the people thought that Hamiltion was a very dangerous man from there on out. -
Kentucky
Cheeseburgers were first served in 1934 at Kaolin's restaurant in Louisville. http://www.50states.com/facts/kentucky.htm#.VPezbZh0xYc -
Tennessee
There are more horses per capita in Shelby County than any other county in the United States. http://www.50states.com/facts/tenn.htm#.VPezz5h0xYc -
Washington's farewell Adress
George Washington addressed it to his friends and fellow citizens announcing his retirement and offering. This was then published in the newspaper. The Farewell Address warns of foreign as well as domestic threats to the Union. In 1796, both France and Britain were active in empire-building in North America, at the same time they were at war worldwide. PBS.org -
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John Adams
John Adams became America's second president. Mr. Adams was the first president to live in the White House.
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Sojourner Truth
Truth was introduced to the abolitionist movement upon joining a utopian community in Massachusetts, and spoke at antislavery rallies and conventions throughout the Midwest in the 1850s. Sojourner Truth was a prominent abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Born a slave in New York State, she had at least three of her children sold away from her. After escaping slavery, Truth embraced evangelical religion and became involved in moral reform and abolitionist work. She died in battle creek MI. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
A series of laws were passed by the Federalist Congress in 1798 and signed into law by President Adams. These laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote. These laws were passed to give authority to the federal government and president to deal with suspicious people. Ushistory.org -
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Chief Justice John Marshall
John Marshalll was the chief of Justice and set up rules for the Supreme Court. He was involved with the cases Marbury vs. Madison, Fletcher vs. Peck, McColloch vs. Maryland, Cohens vs. Virgina, Gibbons vs. Ogden, and Darthmouth college vs. Woodward. Marshall admired his colleagues and drew from their information. -
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was elected the third president of the United States of America. He was most famous for writing the Declaration of Independence.
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Marbury vs. Madison
William Marbury, was chosen as a justice of the peace in the District of Columbia. Marbury and several others were appointed to government posts created by Congress in the last days of John Adams's term, but these last-minute appointments were never fully finalized. The unhappy appointees invoked an act of Congress and sued for their jobs in the Supreme Court. (Justices William Cushing and Alfred Moore did not participate) http://www.oyez.org/cases/1792-1850/1803/1803_0 -
Ohio
The first ambulance service was established in Cincinnati in 1865. http://www.50states.com/facts/ohio.htm#.VPe0R5h0xYc -
Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson bought 828,000 square miles of land from France. This purchase was a total of $15,000,000. Yes thats a lot! This purchase now makes up Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. -
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Lewis and Clark
Thomas Jefferson chose Meriwether Lewis to set on an expedidtion beyond the "great rock mountains". Lewis wanted William Clark to go on this adventure with him. 45 young soldiers followed Lewis and Clark. Sacagawea, her husband, and their baby also. Clark's black slave, an interpreter, and a boat crew. They ended up finding the indians and rockies. After this discovery the US kept expanding. -
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William Lloyd Garrison
In 1830 he started an abolitionist paper, The Liberator. In 1832 he helped form the New England Antislavery Society. When the Civil War broke out, he continued to blast the Constitution as a pro-slavery document. When the civil war ended, he at last saw the abolition of slavery. -
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James Madison
James Madison was elected as the fourth United States president. He led the country through the War of 1812, and later became known as the father of the Bill of Rights.
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Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad
After Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery, she returned to slave-holding states many times to help other slaves escape. She led them safely to the northern free states and to Canada. On her first trip she brought her own sister and her sisters 2 children. A year later she rescued her brother. http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/tubman/aa_tubman_rail_3.html -
Louisiana
Louisiana was named in honor of King Louis XIV. http://www.50states.com/facts/louis.htm#.VPe1S5h0xYc -
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War of 1812
This war with Great Britain was our "second war of independence". During this war, Britian set our nations capital on fire. Causes of the war included British attempts to restrict U.S. trade, the Royal Navy’s impressment of American seamen and America’s desire to expand its territory. -
Missouri
At the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, Richard Blechyden, served tea with ice and invented iced tea. http://www.50states.com/facts/mo.htm#.VPe1qZh0xYc -
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Stanton was the president of the National Woman Suffrage Association for 20 years and worked closely with Susan B. Anthony. http://www.biography.com/people/elizabeth-cady-stanton-9492182#synopsis -
Indiana
The first professional baseball game was played in Fort Wayne on May 4, 1871. http://www.50states.com/facts/indiana.htm#.VPe2GZh0xYc -
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James Monroe
James Monroe became the country's fifth president. President Monroe's presidency was calm because there was little fighting between the political parties during his term.
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Mississippi
Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, on January 8, 1935. http://www.50states.com/facts/miss.htm#.VPe2mJh0xYc -
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Fredrick Douglass
He published a newspaper in Rochester, New York, called The North Star. Douglass's goals were to "abolish slavery in all its forms and aspects, promote the moral and intellectual improvement of the COLORED PEOPLE, and hasten the day of FREEDOM to the Three Millions of our enslaved fellow free country men." What to a slave is 4th of July speech - http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/ -
Illinois
The world's first Skyscraper was built in Chicago, 1885. http://www.50states.com/facts/illinois.htm#.VPi033zF-So -
Dartmouth College vs. Woodward
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. In an attempt to regain authority over the resources of Dartmouth College, the old trustees filed suit against William H. Woodward, who sided with the new appointees. http://www.oyez.org/cases/1792-1850/1818/1818_0 -
Transcontinental Treaty
Spain ceded Florida and renounced the Oregon Country in exchange for recognition of Spanish sovereignty over Texas. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/602475/Transcontinental-Treaty -
McCulloch vs. Maryland
Maryland wants to destroy a branch of the Bank of the United States by putting a tax on its notes. John Marshall declares the Bank of the United States Constitutional by the Hamiltonian Doctrine of implied powers while at the same time denying Maryland the right to tax the bank’s notes. Marshall claimed that “the power to tax involves the power to destroy,” and “a power to create implies a power to preserve.” This is an example of Federal power being asserted over the power of the state. -
Alabama
Alabama workers built the first rocket to put humans on the moon. http://www.50states.com/facts/alabama.htm#.VPi1DHzF-So -
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Susan B Anthony
After the Civil War, Anthony began focus more on women's rights. She helped establish the American Equal Rights Association in 1866 with Stanton, calling for the same rights to be granted to all regardless of race or sex. http://www.biography.com/people/susan-b-anthony-194905#womens-right-to-vote -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri’s 1819 request for admission to the Union as a slave state, which threatened to upset the delicate balance between slave states and free states. To keep the peace, Congress orchestrated a two-part compromise, granting Missouri’s request but also admitting Maine as a free state. It also passed an amendment that drew an imaginary line across the former Louisiana Territory, establishing a boundary between free and slave regions -
Maine
Maine is the only state that shares its border with only one other state. http://www.50states.com/facts/maine.htm#.VPi1N3zF-So -
Monroe Doctrine
This mesaage was delivered by President James Monroe. The message warns Euopean nations that the US would not colnoize them. -
Gibbons vs. Ogden
In this case, the State of New York attempted to grant a monopoly of water-borne commerce between New York and Virginia. Marshall and the Supreme Court denied this deal on the basis that the Constitution grants only Congress the control of interstate commerce, dealing another blow to states’ right proponents. - Major Cases of John Marshall PDF -
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John Quincy
John Quincy Adams became America's sixth president. His father, John Adams, was America's second president. They were the first father/son in history to both be president!
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Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was elected as the 7th U.S. president. He was a rough and tough president, and he was the first president to ride on a train. http://www.softschools.com/timelines/us_presidents/timeline_2/ -
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Abolitionist Movement
The Abolitionist movement in the United States of America was an effort to end slavery in a nation that valued personal freedom and believed "all men are created equal." Over time, abolitionists grew more strident in their demands, and slave owners entrenched in response, fueling regional divisiveness that ultimately led to the American Civil War. - See more at: http://www.historynet.com/abolitionist-movement#sthash.n0FZBELz.dpuf -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner was a Black Slave working for a man named Joseph Travis. Turner was a very strong christan and believes that God was telling him to go and stand up for slavery. Nat then got his calling and acted fast. Turner was eventually captured and killed, along with 55 other slaves apart of the rebellion. Turner's bravery opened up the white peoples eyes and realized that slavery is going against God's ways. -
Arkansas
The state contains six national park sites, two-and-a half million acres of national forests, seven national scenic byways, three state scenic byways, and 50 state parks. http://www.50states.com/facts/arkansas.htm#.VPi1x3x4pcQ -
Michigan
Alpena is the home of the world's largest cement plant. http://www.50states.com/facts/michigan.htm#.VPi2Gnx4pcQ -
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Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren became the eighth American president. He served during an American depression, and most people did not consider him successful.http://www.softschools.com/timelines/us_presidents/timeline_2/ -
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Trail of Tears
125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida–land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. By the end of the decade, very few natives remained anywhere in the southeastern United States. Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians’ land, the federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk thousands of miles to a specially designated “Indian territory” ac -
Horace Mann's campaign for free compulsory public education
Horace wanted free, universal, non-religious-based schooling.
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William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison (1841) William Henry Harrison became America's ninth president. He served the briefest term as president when he died only a month after moving into office. -
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John Tyler
John Tyler became the tenth American president. He took over President Harrison's term, but it wasn't an easy transition. President Tyler had fifteen children!
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Florida
Orlando attracts more visitors than any other amusement park destination in the United States. http://www.50states.com/facts/florida.htm#.VPi2RHx4pcQ -
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James K. Polk
James K. Polk was elected the 11th U.S. president. He served during the Mexican War and added the states of Texas and California the United States territory.
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Manifest Destiny- 1840's slogan
John L. O'Sullivian declared that the explansion of the US into the continents. This was used to aquire land, or persuade countries. -
Texas
The King Ranch in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island. http://www.50states.com/facts/texas.htm#.VPi2eXx4pcQ -
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Mexican - American War
The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. It pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against the expansionist-minded administration of U.S. President James K. Polk, who believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. http://www.history.com/topics/mexican-american-war -
Iowa
Strawberry Point is the home of the world's largest strawberry. http://www.50states.com/facts/iowa.htm#.VPi2qXx4pcQ -
Wisconsin
The state is nicknamed the Badger State. http://www.50states.com/facts/wisconsin.htm#.VPi20nx4pcQ -
Seneca Falls convention/resolution
Elizabeth Cady Stanton composed the Declaration of Sentiments, a document declaring the rights of women modeled on the Declaration of Independence. -
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Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor became the 12th president of America. During his presidency the south threatened to leave the union, and Mr. Taylor tried to keep that from happening. He died during his second year in office.
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Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore was elected as America's thirteenth president. He approved a compromise that kept the southern states from seceding, but the compromise didn't last. http://www.softschools.com/timelines/us_presidents/timeline_2/ -
California
More turkeys are raised in California than in any other state in the United States. http://www.50states.com/facts/calif.htm#.VPi293x4pcQ -
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Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce (1853-1857) Franklin Pierce moved into office as the fourteenth president. Mr. Pierce did away with the compromise that President Fillmore had enacted. -
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James Buchanan
James Buchanan became America's 15th president. Mr. Buchanan failed to keep the southern states happy, and they seceded from the union.
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Dred Scott vs. Sandford
Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri. From 1833 to 1843, he resided in Illinois and in an area of the Louisiana Territory, where slavery was forbidden by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Returning to Missouri, Scott sued unsuccessfully in the Missouri courts for his freedom, claiming that his residence in free state made him a free man. Scott brought a new suit in federal court. Scott's master said that no pure-blooded Negro of African could be a free slave according to Articles of confederation. -
Minnesota
Minneapolis is home to the oldest continuously running theater (Old Log Theater) and the largest dinner theater (Chanhassan Dinner Theater) in the country. http://www.50states.com/facts/minn.htm#.VPi3HXx4pcQ -
Oregon
Oregon has more ghost towns than any other state. http://www.50states.com/facts/oregon.htm#.VPi3PHx4pcQ -
John Brown and the armed resistance
Believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. Brown's attempt in 1859 to start a liberation movement with/for enslaved African Americans made the nation buzz. He was tried for treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, the murder of five men and inciting a slave insurrection. He was found guilty on all counts and was hung. http://www.historyorb.com/people/john-brown -
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was elected as the sixteenth president. He abolished slavery in the country. In 1865 he was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth. http://www.softschools.com/timelines/us_presidents/timeline_2/
