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Nickname: Old Line State
Flower: Black- Eyed Susan http://www.50states.com/maryland.htm#.VPS70H-9KSM -
Nickname: Palmetto State
Bird: Great Carolina Wren
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He was the first president of the United States.
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States
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The Constitutional Convection in Philadelphia in 1787
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The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest in the United States
The Whiskey Rebellion demonstrates that the national government had the will and ability to suppress violence
This happened when George Washington was the president
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He wanted them to stay away from political parties and to stay together United.
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Greatest Accomplishments:
Second president of the United States
His handling of the Quasi-War with France in 1798 http://johnadamsinfo.com/john-adams-accomplishments/86/
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Four bills that were passed by Federalists
These laws were designed to silence and weaken the Domocratic- Republican Party
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Marbury v. Madison(1803)
Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
Cohens v. Virginia (1821)
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
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Wrote a bill establishing religous freedom, enacted in 1786
He was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence in 1776
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Background: original action filed in U.S Supreme Court
Players: Felderalists, Wiliam Marbury and Respondent, Madison
Trial Impacts: Judicial review, allowed things to be declared unconstitutional
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William Clark and Meriwether Lewis
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In later years he was referred to as the "Father of the Constitution"
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Fought against Britan
Perhaps most importantly, the war’s outcome boosted national self-confidence and encouraged the growing spirit of American expansionism that would shape the better part of the 19th century.
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It is believed that the failure of France to put down a slave revolution in Haiti, the impending war with Great Britain and probable British naval blockade of France, and financial difficulties may all have prompted Napoleon to offer Louisiana for sale to the United States.
Negotiations moved swiftly, and at the end of April the U.S. envoys agreed to pay $11,250,000 and assume claims of American citizens against France in the amount of $3,750,000. I
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Wikipedia
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The first professional baseball game was played in Fort Wayne on May 4, 1871
In Fort Wayne, Syvanus F. Bower designed the worlds first practical gasoline pump
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Last president from the Founding Fathers of the United States
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The Mississippi River is the largest in the United States
Flower: Magnolia
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Douglass’s life as a reformer ranged from his abolitionist activities in the early 1840s to his attacks on Jim Crow and lynching in the 1890s. For sixteen years he edited an influential black newspaper and achieved international fame as an orator and writer of great persuasive power. He illustrated by his famous Fourth of July speech in 1852: “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn,” he declared.
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Illinois has two capital cities Kasaskia and Vandalia
The worlds first skyscraper was built in Chicago in 1893
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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
Petitioner:Dartmouth College
Respondent : Woodward
In a 6-to-1 decision, the Court held that the College's corporate charter qualified as a contract between private parties, with which the legislature could not interfere.
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James W. McCullouch the cashier of the Baltimore Branch of the bank refused to pay taxes.
In a unanimous decision, the Court held that Congress had the power to incorporate the bank and that Maryland could not tax instruments of the national government employed in the execution of constitutional powers.
Petitioner: James W. McCullouch
Respondent: State of Maryland
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The treaty established the boundary of U.S. territory and claims through the Rocky Mountains and west to the Pacific Ocean, in exchange for the U.S. paying residents' claims against the Spanish government up to a total of $5,000,000
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"Alabama" is the official state song
Huntsville is known as the rocket capital of the world
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Susan Brownell Anthony was an American social reformer and feminist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. Wikipedia
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was an effort by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to maintain a balance of power between the slaveholding states and free states.
Balancing the interests of slave and free states had played a role from the very start of designing the federal government at the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
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Maine is the only state in the United States whose name has on,y one syllable
Maine is the only state that shares its border with one other state
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The state animal is a Mule
In 1865 Missouri became the first slave state to free slaves
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President Monroe wrote this speech
The doctrine was conceived to meet major concerns of the moment, but it soon became a watchword of U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere.
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In this case Thomas Gibbons -- a steamboat owner who did business between New York and New Jersey under a federal coastal license -- challenged the monopoly license granted by New York to Aaron Ogden. New York courts consistently upheld the state monopoly.
Petitioner :Gibbons
Respondent : Ogden
The unanimous Court found that New York's licensing requirement for out-of-state operators was inconsistent with a congressional act regulating the coasting trade.
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A member of multiple political parties over the years
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He was seeking to act as the direct representative of the common man
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He was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper.
The Liberator, which he founded in 1831 and published in Massachusetts. He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States. In the 1870s, Garrison became a prominent voice for the woman suffrage movement.
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The Abolitionist movement in the United States of America was an effort to end slavery in a nation that valued personal freedom. Their intentions were to end slavery.
Abolitionist leaders included such figures as William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and William Lloyd Still.
To abolish slabery was the message
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Horace Mann and the education reformers' primary purpose was to bring local school districts under centralized town authority and to achieve some degree of uniformity among the towns through a state agency. They believed that popular schooling could be transformed into a powerful instrument for social unity.21
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Afterwards, Turner hid nearby successfully for six weeks until his discovery, conviction, and hanging at Jerusalem, Virginia, along with 16 of his followers.
Nathanial “Nat” Turner (1800-1831) was a black American slave who led the only effective, sustained slave rebellion (August 1831) in U.S. history. Spreading terror throughout the white South, his action set off a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of slaves and stiffened proslavery
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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. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears,"
Andrew Jackson was president when the "Trail of Tears" happened
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Arkansas is officially known as The Natural State
Milk is the official state beverage
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Detroit is known as the Car Capital of the world
The painted turtle is Michigan's state reptile
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He was the president during the financial panic of 1837
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He was the first president to die in office. The shortest tenure in United States Presidential history
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John Tyler was the first Vice President to be elevated to the office of President by the death of his predecessor.
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Florida is the only state that has two rivers with the same name
Key West has the highest average temperature in the United States
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The last strong president until the Civil War
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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. This attitude helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with Mexico.
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Nickname: Lone Star State
The state was an independent nation from 1836 to 1845
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The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil.
When the dust cleared, Mexico had lost about one-third of its territory, including nearly all of present-day California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.
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The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". These conventions became annual events until the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861.
Amelia Bloomer was one key player
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The rights were asked for women's rights.
The goal was to get women's rights
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course.
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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
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Millard Fillmore, a member of the Whig party
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Franklin Pierce became President at a time of apparent tranquility.
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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. There were rewards for their capture.
Tubman made 19 trips to Maryland and helped 300 people to freedom.
Yet, she was never captured and never failed to deliver her "passengers" to safety.
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He served immediately prior to the American Civil War.
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Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri. After returning to Missouri, Scott sued unsuccessfully in the Missouri courts for his freedom, claiming that his residence in free territory made him a free man. Scott then brought a new suit in federal court.
Petitioner :Dred Scott Respondent: Stanford
The Court then held the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, hoping to end the slavery question once and for all.
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They stormed the engine house, where Brown had withdrawn, captured him and members of his group, and turned them over to Virginia authorities to be tried for treason. He was quickly tried and sentenced to hang on December 2.
John Brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of HARPER'S FERRY, Virginia. His plan was to instigate a major slave rebellion in the South.
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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.
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Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man. In 1851, Truth joined George Thompson, and in May made her famous speech.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojourner_Truth
There is a monument if Sojouner Truth in Battke Creek MI
