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Delaware
According to members of the original commission established to design the flag, the shades of buff and colonial blue represent those of the uniform of General George Washington. -
Pennsylvania
An act of the General Assembly of June 13, 1907, standardized the flag and required that the blue field match the blue of Old Glory -
New Jersey
New Jersey has the highest population density in the U.S. An average 1,030 people per sq. mi., which is 13 times the national average. -
Georgia
The City of Savanna was the first steamship to cross the Atlantic. It sailed from Georgia. -
Connecticut
The first telephone book ever issued contained only fifty names. The New Haven District Telephone Company published it in New Haven in February 1878. -
Massachusetts
Boston built the first subway system in the United States in 1897. -
Maryland
The first dental school in the United States opened at the University of Maryland. -
South Carolina
The salamander was given the honor of official state amphibian. -
New Hampshire
The first potato planted in the United States was at Londonderry Common Field in 1719. -
Virginia
Virginia is known as "the birthplace of a nation". -
New York
The first American chess tournament was held in New York in 1843. -
George Washington
On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. -
North Carolina
High Point is known as the Furniture Capital of the World. -
Rhode Island
Rhode Island was the last of the original thirteen colonies to become a state. -
Whiskey Rebellion
First real test of the new United States Government's authority to enforce federal laws. In Western Pennsylvania, people used a lot of whiskey: both to use up extra corn and as money. The federal government passed a tax on whiskey in 1791. Farmers in western Pennsylvania refused to pay the tax, saying it was like the Stamp Act all over again. Trouble brewed for a couple years until 1794, when farmers assaulted federal tax collectors. -
Whiskey Rebellion Cont.
President George Washington called out the national militia to put down what came to be called the Whiskey Rebellion. Many people were arrested, but all were later either pardoned or found not guilty. -
Vermont
Vermont was the first state admitted to the Union after the ratification of the Constitution. -
Kentucky
The Bluegrass Country around Lexington is home to some of the world's finest racehorses. -
Washington's Farewell Address
I rejoice that the state of your concerns, external as well as internal, no longer renders the pursuit of inclination incompatible with the sentiment of duty or propriety, and am persuaded, whatever partiality may be retained for my services, that, in the present circumstances of our country, you will not disapprove my determination to retire -
Tennessee
There are more horses per capita in Shelby County than any other county in the United States. -
John Adams
John Adams, a remarkable political philosopher, served as the second president of the United States (1797-1801), after serving as the first vice president under George Washington. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
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 laws were purported to strengthen national security, but critics argued that they were primarily an attempt to suppress voters who disagreed with the Federalist party. -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson, a spokesman for democracy, was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and the third President of the United States (1801–1809). -
Marbury v. Madison Pt.1
President John Adams had made several appointments at the end of his term, but he ignored a appointment with Marbury. At the direction of Jefferson, Madison refused to deliver Marbury's commission. Marbury sued Madison, and the Supreme Court took the case. -
Marbury v. Madison Pt.2
They ruled unconstitutional. Although the immediate effect of the decision was to deny power to the Court, its long-run effect has been to increase the Court’s power by establishing the rule that ‘it is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.’ -
Ohio
The first ambulance service was established in Cincinnati in 1865. -
Lewis and Clark
Lewis and Clark went with 33 people (including Lewis and Clark), to explore other parts of America. The traveled upstream of the Mississippi River. -
James Madison
James Madison, America's fourth President (1809-1817), made a major contribution to the ratification of the Constitution by writing The Federalist Papers, along with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay. In later years, when he was referred to as the "Father of the Constitution." -
Louisiana
Louisiana was named in honor of King Louis XIV. -
Indiana
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. -
James Monroe
James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States (1817–1825) and the last president from the Founding Fathers of the United States. -
Mississippi
Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, on January 8, 1935. -
Illinois
The world's first Skyscraper was built in Chicago, 1885. -
McCullouh v. Maryland Pt.1
The State of Maryland voted to tax all bank business not done with state banks. This was meant to be a tax on people who lived in Maryland but who did business with banks in other states. However, the State of Maryland also sought to tax the federal bank. Andrew McCulloch, who worked in the Baltimore branch of the Bank of the United States, refused to pay the tax. The State of Maryland sued, and the Supreme Court accepted the case. -
McCullouh v. Maryland Pt.2
Writing for the Court, Chief Justice John Marshall wrote that the federal government did indeed have the right and power to set up a federal bank. He also wrote that they should not be allowed to tax and that states should not have as much power of the state's. -
Transcontinental Treaty
The Adams Onis Treaty (aka the Florida Treaty and the Transcontinental Treaty) was an agreement made in 1819 between the United States and Spain that gave Florida to the U.S. and set out a boundary between the United States and New Spain (now Mexico). -
Dartmouth College v. Woodward Pt.1
Dartmouth college wanted to change their private school to a public school and they changed how the trustees were selected. The existing trustees went to court. -
Dartmouth College v. Woodward Pt.2
The vote went to Dartmouth college in a 5-1 margin. Chief Justice Marshall wrote the majority opinion. He said that the charter was, in essence, a contract between the King and the trustees. Even though we were no longer a royal colony, the contract is still valid because the Constitution says that a state cannot pass laws to impair a contract. -
Alabama
Alabama workers built the first rocket to put humans on the moon. -
Missouri Compromise
Agreement put forward by Henry Clay that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter the Union as a free state. The Compromise also drew an imaginary line at 36 degrees 30 minutes north latitude, dividing the new Louisiana Territory into two areas, one north and one south. All of the Louisiana Territory north of this line was free territory, meaning that any territories that became states from this area would enable African-Americans to be free. -
Maine
Maine is the only state in the United States whose name has one syllable. -
Missouri
Missouri is known as the "Show Me State". -
Monroe Dovtrine
The Monroe Doctrine is the best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere. The doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs. The policy was given to president Monroe. -
Gibbons v. Ogden Pt.1
Thomas Gibbons, another steamship trader, wanted to use the New York waterways for his business, too. He had been given federal permission to do so. He was denied access to these waterways by the State of New York, which cited its law as enforcement. Gibbons sued Ogden, and the Supreme Court agreed to decide the case. -
Gibbons v. Ogden Pt.2
Gibbons won the case 6-0. This was a big deal because people thought that there was to much federal power. -
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams, son of John and Abigail Adams, served as the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. A member of multiple political parties over the years, he also served as a diplomat, a Senator and member of the House of Representatives. -
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837, seeking to act as the direct representative of the common man. -
Abolitionist Movement
The point was to remove all discriminatory acts and segregation and slavery in the us. A large contributor to this movement was William Lloyd Garrison who edits the paper in Vermont. The movement began in the 1830s and ended in the 1870s. -
Indian Removal Act - Trail of Tears
In 1830 the US government passed a law allowing the government the right to force Indians to leave their lands.
Most of the Indians didn't want to leave, so in response the government sent their army to get the job done. -
Trail of Tears Pt.2
After being told to leave, the Cherokee Indians went to the Supreme Court and won the trial. It made the Indian Removal Act invalid, illegal, unconstitutional and against treaties previously made by the United States. -
The Nat Turner Rebellion
Nat Turner a slave, led black slaves around the town killing some 60 white women, men and children in Virginia. Even though 16 of Nat Turners followers were killed, it still haunted the whites. At random blacks were being killed and their heads were placed on roads to warn others. -
Trail of Tears Pt.3
The Cherokee didn't stand a chance against the army and had to walk away from their territory. On their journey the lost 4000 people, that's why it's called the trail of tears. -
Arkansas
North Little Rock offers one of the nation's largest municipal parks. -
Horace Mann
1837 the state created the nation’s first board of education, with Mann as its secretary. This was needed because the education system in Massachusetts was lacking -
Michigan
Detroit is known as the car capital of the world. -
Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren was the eighth President of the United States (1837–1841), after serving as the eighth Vice President and the tenth secretary of state, both under Andrew Jackson. While the country was prosperous when the "Little Magician" was elected, less than three months later the financial panic of 1837 punctured the prosperity. -
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass (1818-95) was a prominent American abolitionist, author and orator. Born a slave, Douglass escaped at age 20 and went on to become a world-renowned anti-slavery activist. He gave several speeches such as What is the 4th of July to a slave. -
The Manifest Destiny
The manifest destiny was a idea or attitude that the us not only could expand coast to coast, but was destined to. It fueled western settlements and it helped end the Mexican war. -
Seneca Falls Convention
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. The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two abolitionists who met at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. -
Willian Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison, an American military officer and politician, was the ninth President of the United States (1841), the oldest president to be elected at the time. He became the first to die in office on his 32nd day, serving the shortest tenure in United States presidential history. -
John Tyler
John Tyler became the tenth President of the United States (1841–1845) when William Henry Harrison, his running mate, died in April 1841. He was the first Vice President elevated to President after the death of a predecessor. -
Flordia
Cape Canaveral is America's launch pad for space flights. -
James K. Polk
Often referred to as the first "dark horse," James Knox Polk was the 11th President of the United States from 1845-1849, the last strong President until the Civil War. -
Texas
Texas is popularly known as The Lone Star State. -
The Mexican-American War
On this date a Mexican Cavalry attacked a group of us soldiers the were under the command of Zachary Taylor. The result was around a dozen killed. The point was to achieve the land we know today as Texas. Due to the loss, Mexico sold California to the us in return for Texas after the war ended with the general of Mexico committing suicide after their loss. -
Iowa
Ripley's Believe It or Not has dubbed Burlington's Snake Alley the most crooked street in the world. -
Seneca Falls Resolution
The Seneca Falls Convention was followed two weeks later by an even larger meeting in Rochester, N.Y. Thereafter, national woman’s rights conventions were held annually, providing an important focus for the growing women’s suffrage movement. After years of struggle, the 19th Amendment was adopted in 1920, granting American women the constitutionally protected right to vote. -
Wisconsin
The state is nicknamed the Badger State. -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton held the famous Seneca Falls Convention in July 1848. At this meeting, the attendees drew up its “Declaration of Sentiments” and took the lead in proposing that women be granted the right to vote. She continued to write and lecture on women's rights and other reforms of the day. After meeting Susan B Anthony in the early 1850s, she was one of the leaders in promoting women's rights in general (such as divorce) and the right to vote. -
Harriet Tubman Pt.1
In 1849 she fled slavery, leaving her husband and family behind in order to escape. Despite a bounty on her head, she returned to the South at least 19 times to lead her family and hundreds of other slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad. Tubman also served as a scout, spy and nurse during the Civil War. -
Harriet Tubman
Col. James Montgomery of the Second Carolina Volunteers.
Colonel Montgomery.
Tubman collaborated with John Brown in 1858 in planning his raid on Harpers Ferry. -
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor, a general and national hero in the United States Army from the time of the Mexican-American War and the the War of 1812, was later elected the 12th President of the United States, serving from March 1849 until his death in July 1850. -
Sojourner Truth Pt.1
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 collected supplies for black regiments during the Civil War and immersed herself in advocating for freedpeople during the Reconstruction period. -
Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore, a member of the Whig party, was the 13th President of the United States (1850–1853) and the last president not to be affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties. -
California
The Hollywood Bowl is the world's largest outdoor amphitheater. -
Sojourner Truth Pt.2
Truth was a powerful and impassioned speaker whose legacy of feminism and racial equality still resonates today. She is perhaps best known for her stirring “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech, delivered at a women’s convention in Ohio in 1851. -
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) was one of the most prominent and uncompromising abolitionists of the nineteenth century. Garrison published The Liberator, an antislavery newspaper, from 1831 until the day that all American slaves were freed, 34 years later. He also organized the first Anti-Slavery Society in New England, and co-founded the first nationwide organization, the American Anti-Slavery Society -
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce became 14th President of the United States at a time of apparent tranquility (1853–1857). By pursuing the recommendations of southern advisers, Pierce--a New Englander--hoped to prevent still another outbreak of that storm. -
Dred Scott v. Sandford
The case was about african Americans being U.S citizens. Dred Scott was a african American who tried in court for his freedom as a slave and lost 2-7. For only the second time in its history the Supreme Court ruled an Act of Congress to be unconstitutional. -
James Buchanan
James Buchanan, Jr., the 15th President of the United States (1857–1861), served immediately prior to the American Civil War. He remains the only president to be elected from Pennsylvania and to remain a lifelong bachelor. -
Minnesota
The Mall of America in Bloomington is the size of 78 football fields --- 9.5 million square feet. -
John Brown
In 1859, Brown and 21 of his followers attacked and occupied the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry. Their goal was to capture supplies and use them to arm a slave rebellion. Brown was captured during the raid and later hanged, but not before becoming an anti-slavery icon. -
Oregon
Oregon has more ghost towns than any other state. -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln became the United States' 16th President in 1861, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863. -
Susan B. Anthony
Anthony was a political women who knew that women would never be accepted in the political field unless they are allowed to vote. She gave several speechs and even voted illegally receiving a $100 fine that she never paid. After she died, about 14 years later she was put on a dollar coin.
