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In 1769 the King of England granted a charter to Dartmouth College. This document spelled out the purpose of the school, set up the structure to govern it, and gave land to the college. In 1816, the state legislature of New Hampshire passed laws that revised the charter. These laws changed the school from private to public. They changed the duties of the trustees. They changed how the trustees were selected.By a 5-1 margin, the Court agreed with Dartmouth.
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Delaware was the first state to ratify the constitution.
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In 1909 the first baseball stadium was bulit in Pennsylvania
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Has the highest dense population in the United States averaging 1,030 people per square mile
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This state contains over 400,000 acres of swamp land.
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The first telephone book, which only contained fifty names, was published in Connecticut.
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552 original documents are preserved and stored in Massachusetts.
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First railroad station, built in 1830, was built in Baltimore.
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The Campbell's covered bridge, built in 1909, is the only remaining bridge in South Carolina.
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First to declare its Independance from the mother of England.
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The Major cash crop of Virginia is Tobacco and many people who live there earn their living in the Tobacco industry.
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The statue of Liberty arrived in New York in 1855, a gift from the people of France.
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George Washington was the first president of the United States of America
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The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill is the oldest state university in the united States.
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Never ratified the 18th amendment.
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The first state admitted by the union.
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A tax protest in the U.S.
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The U.S. raised taxes and then rebelled. This showed significance ot the U.S. because it showed us that we can supress rebellion.
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Was a poular hunting ground for Indians before being settled by white settlers.
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Washington didn't want the U.S.to look like England. He wanted to stay away from alliances.
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There are more horses per capita in Shelby County than any other county.
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John Adams was a political philosopher, and during his term as president, the nation broke out into what Adams called the "X,Y,Z fever"
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Alien and sedition acts were passed by the federalist congress in 1798 and signed into the law by president Adams. These laws included new powers to deport for foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote
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Manifest Destiny is a term for the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast.Manifest Destiny was significant to the expansion of the United States in the 19th century. It was the primary force that caused the United States to expand west across North America. To Americans, expansion offered self-advancement, self-sufficiency, income and freedom.
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Jefferson was an American founding father, and he was the principle of the Declaration of Independence. He also won an AIA gold medal.
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Marbury v. Madison(1803), fletcher v. Peck(1810), Mchulloch v. Maryland(1819, cohens v. Virginia(1821), Gibbons v. Ogden(1824) He was part of the 3 branches and making them all have equal, especially the judicial branch
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The first ambulance was astablished in Cincinati.
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Marbury argued that he was entitled to his commission and that the judicial act act of 1789 gave the supreme court of the United States original jurisdiction to issue a writ of mandamusan. Madison was sued by Marbury and asked the Supreme Court of the United States to issue a writ of mandamus, a court order that requires an official to perform or refrain from performing a certain duty. Marbury placed it squarely at the heart of the U.S. Governance.
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Lewis and Clark expedition.2 year journey to go to the great ocean. (Pacific Ocean)
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Impact: land size 828,000 square miles long, Cost:15 million dollars, the Louisiana purchase demonstrates Jefferson's ability to make pragmatic political decisions
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Madison was an American statesman, and a political theorist
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Iceland, it's North American colonies and its American Indian allies.War disappeared with the end of the war between Britain and France. And the destruction of the powers of tribes and American fears of native Americans.
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The world famous Mardi Gras is held here every year,drawing in thousands of people.
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The first long distance automobile race was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
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Monroe was the last president who was a founding father.
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The first human lung transplant took place in Mississippi.
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The wide world o’er
When from their galling chains set free,Th’ oppress’d shall vilely bend the knee,And wear the yoke of tyranny Like brutes no more.That year will come, and freedom’s reign,To man his plundered fights again Restore. -
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Adams used the Jackson’s military action to present Spain with a demand to either control the inhabitants of East Florida or cede it to the United States. Minister Onís and Secretary Adams reached an agreement whereby Spain ceded East Florida to the United States and renounced all claim to West Florida.
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Throughout the early years of the Republic, the power of the Federal Government had continued to grow. By the second decade of the 19th century, cases pitting advocates of States' rights against those arguing for the supremacy of the National Government came frequently before the Court Chief Justice McCulloch v. Maryland the Supreme Court ruled that e Second Bank of the Congress had implied powers under the Necessary and Proper Clause of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. Congress won.
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Women’s Rights- She helped organize the first women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls on July 19 and 20. Over 300 people attended. Stanton drafted a Declaration of Sentiments, which she read at the convention.
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Alabama workers built the first rocket to take humans to the moon.
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Congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel, which runs approximately along the southern border of Missouri.
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1820 - Susan Brownell Anthony born on February 15 in Adams, Massachsetts, the second of 7 children.
1851- Susan B Anthony travels to Syracuse, N.Y., anti-slavery convention. She visits Amelia Bloomer, hears William Lloyd Garrison and George Thompson, and meets Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 1856 - Anthony becomes agent for the American Anti-Slavery act. -
The only state name with one syllable.
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Called the "Show me state" due to a statement made by a congressman.
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The United States would remain neutral in European affairs and not get involved in European conflicts. James Monroe gave the speech.
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Adams was a diplomat and a senator.
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Jackson tried to get rid of the electoral college. He also wanted to buy slaves and build a mansion with his wealth.
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Was an attempt to abolish slavery. William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier, Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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In 1831 a slave named Nat Turner led a rebellion in Southhampton County, Virginia. A religious leader and self-styled Baptist minister, Turner and a group of followers killed some sixty white men, women, and children on the night of August 21.
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The Liberator (1831-1865) was an abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp in 1831. goal was only to reduce the number of free blacks in the country and thus help preserve the institution of slavery
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he/ they wanted education to be free for all students
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Famous singer, Johnny Cash was born here.
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Famous singer Eminem is from Detroit.
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During Van Buren's time in office, hundreds of banks and businesses went bankrupt. He contributed to this with his financial measures
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In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma.
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Harrison was the first president to die in office. He died of pneumonia, and when he died, the whig program ended.
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Tyler was expelled from the Whig group. He helped end the Canadian boundary law.
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Life dates, On June 1, 1843 sojourner truth became a Methodist
Role in Abolition- she gave speeches on abolishing slavery
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Saint Augestine is the oldest english settlement in the United States.
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While Polk was in office, he risked many wars with his choices. He also extended the Canadian boarder with protests from congress. The treaty was signed in 1846.
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Popularly known as the Lone Star state.
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The war was primarily a territorial dispute caused by the United States' policy of manifest destiny. President Polk and the American citizens wanted to expand their nation by acquiring all of the land on the North American continent regardless of the native people already residing on the land.
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Was the home of the worlds largest strawberry.
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Its primary goal was to discuss the rights of women.
in 1848 and into the future", according to Judith Wellman, a historian of the convention.
Declaration of Sentiments (what were the sentiments)- The Declaration of Sentiments, offered for the acceptance of the Convention, was then read by E. C. -
There are 7,446 rivers and streams, and put together end to end, they would stretch to 26, 747 miles.
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Taylor died in office after he was ill, and he also fought the Indians.
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By the mid-1850s, sectional conflict over the extension of slavery into the Western territories threatened to tear the nation apart.
The Court decided 7-2 in favor of the slave owner. Every justice submitted an individual opinion justifying his position, with Chief Justice Taney's being the most influential. -
Fillmore signed the fugitive slave act, so many people wanted to deprive him of his presidency.
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Home of the U.S. landmark, the Golden Gate Bridge which is still there today.
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Pierce won with the popular vote. He entered I to office nervously because just before his eleven year old son died in a train accident.
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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. It was very dangerous to be a runaway slave.
Conductor of the Underground Railroad
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Buchanon rejected bills on college because he thought there was enough education in America.
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Home of the largest mall called the Mall of America.
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The only state flag to carry two seperate designs.
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Because he wanted to start a liberation movement among enslaved African Americans in Harpers Ferry, Virginia
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Lincoln issued the Emancipation Act, which helped free slaves in America. He was assasainated, and also a founding father.
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As the American frontier moved west and settlers pushed beyond the Appalachians into the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys, the question of commercial development became very important.
Chief Justice Marshall delivered the opinion of a unanimous (6-0) Court siding with Gibbons.