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Only state without a state park
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First baseball stadium
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Highest population density
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Pirate Edward Balckbeard had a home in georgia
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You may. Not cross the street on your hands
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Had the first subway system
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First school in the country
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First battle of the civil war took place here
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Declared independence 6 months before the Decleration of Indepedence
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Birth place of the US
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722 miles of Subway track
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First air plane
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didn't let people make him the king of America. French Revolution was happening during his precidency.
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Smallest state
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Only state capital without a McDonald's
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Peole outraged on the tax on whiskey. Citizens revolted. They used violoence and intimidation. This was the first tax that America had gave its citizens. when washington set men to deal with it, they got thier and it had already ended.
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Second oldest tourist attraction
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Kingston Capitol for 1 day
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When Washington left office his speech said the need to preserve the union. Stay away form foreign dangers and faction
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He was known for his hangdling of the Quasi War. Ireland became part of the UK when he was president.
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She played an acttive role in a abolishing slavery. She spoke at many conventions and was part of alot of groups. She worte a memoir about her time as a slave. Her most famous speech, "Ain't I a Woman", she read in 1851 at a convention in Ohio. It talked about how women need rights. There is a statue of her in Battle Creek.
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congress made four laws after the French war. The laws were created to stregthen national security.
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He created West Point. The Louisina Purchase happened during his Precidency.
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John Marshall was chief justice of the supreme court. His big cases were Marbury v. Madison, Mocullouch v Maryland, Cohens v Virginia.
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First ambulance system created
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Marbury petition Madison the Secretary of State to send over documents to the disttric of Columbia where he was the Justice of Peace. The trial helped define the boundary between the constitutionally seperarate branches of government. Marbury won 4-0 but Madison doesn't have to deliver it.
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Grew the united states and got all othert countries out of America. Got 827,000 miles for 15,000,000 dolars.
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Lewis, Clark, Sacagewa, Pomp, Charbonneau, and 31 other men went west to find a way to the pacifioc ocean. Went through the rockies and the great planes.
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Got the Capitol burned down. Napoleon was stopped at Waterloo.
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US went to war with Britain for parts of Canada. We got a treaty. America went into the Good Feeling era.
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Mardi Gras is there
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement
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Warned Europe not to get involved in the Western Hemisphere. He Erie Canal was built
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First heart and lung transplant
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His speech "What to a slave is the fourth of july" compared america getting away from britain and slaves gettng away from owners. He played a key role in abolitionment by speeching to people far and near.
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First skyscraper in the world
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David Letterman is from here
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Congress chartered the Second Bank of America. Maryland legislature placed a tax, against the constituion. McCullouch refused. The court decide with McCullocuh 7-0
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New Hampshire changed the charter of Dartmouth college changing it from a private to a public school, limiting the trustees power, and changing how they were selected. This impacted how people fewed the states governments. The court decided 5-1 with Dartmouth
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US and got florida and oregon and Spain got texas.
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Birthplace of Confederate Union
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Divided the country into slave states and non slave states. More slaves. Drew a line on the 36 parallel and said no states can have slaves above the line. Missouri was above the line and they were a sla even state. Much controversy.
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She helped get women rights. She also collected ant-slavery petions at age 17.
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Eastport is the most eastern city in the United States. The city is considered the first place in the United States to receive the rays of the morning sun.
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Also, at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, the ice cream cone was invented. An ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a waffle vendor to help by rolling up waffles to hold ice cream.
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James Monroe gave a speech that warned Europe not to colinize in the western hemisphere
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states used to make steamboats have licenses to work in their waters. Had different states with license, monopoly effect. Gibbons won 6-0. This impacted states right over commerce.
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His greatest accomplishment was the treaty of Ghent. First railroad was built hwhile he was president.
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The only president to work us out of debt. Salvery abolished in Britain while he was president.
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this movement called for the immediate emancipation of all slaves. This was going to abolish slavery.
Theodore D. Weld, William Lloyd Garrison, Arthur and Lewis Tappan, and Elizur Wright, Jr lead the movement. -
He was pushing for good public schools for everyone.
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Nat Turner lead a slave revolt killed 50-65 people. Nat was hung.
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Not the farthest state south. It actually hawaii
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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.
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He created the Democratic Party. Upper and lower Canada combined while he was in office.
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President Jackson made indians leave thier home land and go to present day oklahoma.
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Died a few weeks I to term from being a meat head and giving a speech without a jacket
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Died a month into his term.
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Made florida party of the Union. First Afghan war started while he was in office.
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He joined Texas amd Oregon into the Union. The Mexican war started as he was president.
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Citizens believed it was there destiny to expand as big as we can.
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The King Ranch in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
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We went to war with mexico to expand our borders. We destroyred Mexico. We gained Utah Nevada, New Mexico, Almost all of california.,
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Wisonsin is the dairy capitol of the United States
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Quaker Oats, in Cedar Rapids, is the largest cereal company in the world.
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First womens right convention. wanted the same rights as the men got.
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Clayton-Buwlar Treaty. Safety pin invented
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The underground railroad was a way to geat slaves to the north. Thomas Garret and.John Fairfield also helped. Helped free 300 slaves by herslef. There was a location in Schoolcraft, MI and in Quincy, IL.The goal was to get slaves to canada so they could be free.
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Compromise of 1850
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Kansas Nebraska act. India revolts on the Bristish
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Union fell apart
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Dred scott was a slave who escaped to Illinois and was free. Went back to his owner Sandford and sued him. This made slaves less than a person. He lost 7-2.
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John Brown was upset about slavery. He attempted to start a alve uprisng. He was hung
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Brought the union together and abolished slavery
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