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Washington was born in 1732 and served from 1789 to 1797. Washington was the first president of the United States.
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John Adams was born in 1735 and was the second president of the United States. He served from 1797 to 1801. John Adams was known for his great navel battles.
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Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States. He served from 1801 to 1809.
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James Madison, Jr. was an American statesman, political theorist and the fourth President of the United States. He served from March 4, 1809 to March 4, 1817.
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James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States. Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States and the last president from the Virginia dynasty and the Republican Generation. He served from March 4, 1817 to March 4, 1825.
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Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States. He was born into a recently immigrated Scots-Irish farming family of relatively modest means, near the end of the colonial era. He served from 1829 to 1837.
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John Quincy Adams was an American statesman who served as the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. He also served as a diplomat, a Senator and member of the House of Representatives.
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William Henry Harrison was the ninth President of the United States, an American military officer and politician, and the first president to die in office. He served only 32 days in office before he died.
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Martin Van Buren was the eighth President of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in a number of senior roles, including eighth Vice President and secretary of state, both under Andrew Jackson. He served from 1837 to 1841.
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Zachary Taylor was the 12th President of the United States, serving from March 1849 until his death in July 1850. Before his presidency, Taylor was a career officer in the United States Army, rising to the rank of major general.
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Added to the union in Dec. 7, 1787. And was the first state to ratify the constitution.
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Pennsylvania was home to the first computer in the U.S.
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New Jersey was home to the first baseball game.
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In Gainesville, the Chicken Capital of the World it is illegal to eat chicken with a fork.
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Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
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There is a house in Rockport built entirely of newspaper.
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King Williams School opened in 1696 it was the first school in the United States.
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Of the thirteen original colonies, New Hampshire was the first to declare its independence from Mother England -- a full six months before the Declaration of Independence was signed.
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Over 1/2 the battles fought in the civil war were fought in Virginia. Over 2,200 of the 4,000 battles.
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The "New York Post" established in 1803 by Alexander Hamilton is the oldest running newspaper in the United States.
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There was an attempt by the federalists to take over the federal judiciary before Thomas Jefferson took office.
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Krispy Kreme Doughnut was founded in Winston-Salem.
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John Tyler was the tenth President of the United States. He was elected vice president on the 1840 Whig ticket with William Henry Harrison, and became president after his running mate's death in April 1841.
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Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment prohibition.
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Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
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James Buchanan, Jr. was the 15th President of the United States, serving immediately prior to the American Civil War. March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861
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The song "Happy Birthday to You" was the creation of two Louisville sisters in 1893.
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The government put a tax on whiskey to create a self-supporting government. Many people opposed this and created a large group of people thought the states that destroyed the home of a tax inspector. Eventually Hamilton used a military force of 13,000. The government had proven it could keep order.
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Bristol is known as the Birthplace of Country Music.
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James Knox Polk was the 11th President of the United States. Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He later lived in and represented Tennessee. Served from 1845 to 1849.
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Laws passed that increased the residency requirements as America prepared for war with France. The act was repealed in 1802.
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Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States, the last Whig president, and the last president not to be affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties. Served July 9, 1850 – March 4, 1853
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The first ambulance service was established in Cincinnati in 1865.
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The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane "Sale of Louisiana") was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory (828,000 square miles) by the United States from France in 1803.
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John Marshall may have been the most instrumental person in shaping the powers of the US Supreme Court Through his early decisions, he established that the US Supreme Court would have the power to review state courts, state laws, and even federal laws to determine if they were constitutional or not.
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States, departing in May 1804, from near St. Louis on the Mississippi River, making their way westward through the continental divide to the Pacific coast.
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Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States. Genial and well-spoken, Pierce was a northern Democrat who saw the abolitionist movement as a fundamental threat to the unity of the nation. March 4, 1853 – March 4, 1857
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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
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The War of 1812 was a military conflict, lasting for two-and-a-half years, between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies and its American Indian allies. Seen by the United States and Canada as a war in its own right, it is frequently seen in Europe as a theatre of the Napoleonic Wars, as it was caused by issues related to that war.
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Louisiana has the tallest state capitol building in the United States; the building is 450 feet tall with 34 floors.
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The first long-distance auto race in the U. S. was held May 30, 1911, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The winner averaged 75 miles an hour and won a 1st place prize of $14,000. Today the average speed is over 167 miles an hour and the prize is more than $1.2 million. Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the site of the greatest spectacle in sports, the Indianapolis 500. The Indianapolis 500 is held every Memorial Day weekend in the Hoosier capital city. The race is 200 laps or 500 miles long.
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The International Checkers Hall of Fame is in Petal.
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Des Plaines is home to the first McDonald's.
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The state of Maryland cannot tax the federal Bank of the United States. This Case also set a precedent for the federalist doctrine of “loose construction” of the interpretation of the Constitution. The case involves an attempt by the state of Maryland 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 (think necessary and proper clause)
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Marshall asserts the Constitution’s safeguards of government trying to change or nullify contracts, a decision that will set the precedent of safeguarding business from state legislatures and later allowing corporations to escape government control. Dartmouth College was given a charter by King George III in 1769 and the state of New Hampshire was trying to change Dartmouth’s charter. Marshall and the Supreme Court ruled that the charter was a contract, and thus was safe from being changed.
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Boxer Joe Louis was born in Lexington in 1914. He died in 1981.
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90% of the country's toothpick supply is produced in Maine.
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Missouri is known as the "Show Me State".
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The Monroe Doctrine is the best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere. Buried in a routine annual message delivered to Congress by President James Monroe in December 1823, the doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.
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Marshall enforces the point in the Constitution that grants Congress alone the power to control interstate commerce, not the individual states. 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
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Arkansas contains over 600,000 acres of lakes and 9,700 miles of streams and rivers.
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Gerald R. Ford grew up in Grand Rapids and became the 38th president of the United States He attended the University of Michigan where he was a football star. He served on a World War II aircraft carrier and afterward represented Michigan in Congress for 24 years. He was also was an Eagle Scout, the highest rank in Boy Scouts.
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Cape Canaveral is America's launch pad for space flights.
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During the period of July 24-26, 1979, the Tropical Storm Claudette brought 45 inches of rain to an area near Alvin, Texas, contributing to more than $600 million in damages. Claudette produced the United States 24 hour rainfall record of 43 inches.
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Strawberry Point is the home of the world's largest strawberry.
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Wisconsin snowmobile trails total 15,210 miles of signed and groomed snow highways.
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More turkeys are raised in California than in any other state in the United States.
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The Toledo war was a war that no one died in and the only injury was a stab wound. The war was over the Toledo Strip and was between Michigan and Ohio. Both states wanted to put a city on the strip.
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Dred Scott v. Sandford,was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court, and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States.
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Minnesotan baseball commentator Halsey Hal was the first to say 'Holy Cow' during a baseball broadcast.
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Oregon has more ghost towns than any other state.
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In 1969 it rained Cremora, a powdered non-dairy creamer, in the town of Chester when the plant developed exhaust vent issues and released the powder into the air. Thankfully, the issue was fixed and the people aren’t breathing creamer anymore.
