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Delaware became the first state of the US
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Pennsilvania gains statehood The first daily newspaper was published in Philadelphia on Sept. 21, 1784 (http://www.50states.com/facts/penn.htm#.VPhoCH-9KSN)
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New Jersey gains statehood The first Indian reservation was in New Jersey. (http://www.50states.com/facts/newjerse.htm#.VPhpD3-9KSM)
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Georgia gains statehood,
In 1828 Auraria, near the city of Dahlongea, was the site of the first Gold Rush in America. (http://www.50states.com/facts/georgia.htm#.VPhq0X-9KSO) -
Conneticut gains statehood: Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition). (http://www.50states.com/facts/conn.htm#.VPhrR3-9KSM)
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Massachusetts gains statehood: The Boston Tea Party reenactment takes place in Boston Harbor every December 16th.(http://www.50states.com/facts/mass.htm#.VPhrr3-9KSM)
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Maryland gains statehood: On June 24,1784, in Baltimore, 13-year old Edward Warren went airborne in the first successful manned balloon launch in the United States.(http://www.50states.com/facts/maryland.htm#.VPhsxn-9KSM)
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South Carolina gains statehood: The first battle of the Civil War took place at Fort Sumter (http://www.50states.com/facts/socaro.htm#.VPht7X-9KSM)
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New Hampshire gains statehood: 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. (http://www.50states.com/facts/newhamp.htm#.VPhucH-9KSM)
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Virginia gains statehood: Virginia is known as "the birthplace of a nation". (http://www.50states.com/facts/virginia.htm#.VPm3kn-9KSM)
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New York gains statehood: The first capital of the United States was New York City. In 1789 George Washington took his oath as president on the balcony at Federal Hall. (http://www.50states.com/facts/newyork.htm#.VPm4WX-9KSM)
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1st presidant of the United States. Led the US in the Revolutionary War
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North Carolina gains statehood: Hiram Rhoades Revels, born in Fayetteville in 1822, was the first African-American member of the United States Congress (http://www.50states.com/facts/ncarolin.htm#.VPm46n-9KSM)
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Rhode Island gains statehood: Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment prohibition. (http://www.50states.com/facts/rdisl.htm#.VPm58H-9KSM)
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The government put a ban on whiskey and that made people outraged. It grew so bad George Washington had to send 12,000 troops in to settle the outraged people.
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Vermont gains statehood
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Kentucky gains statehood
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Tennessee gains statehood
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George Washington gave a speech near the end of his presidency that stated and I quote, "do not create political parties." As you can see are government ended up creating political parties.
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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 result of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with France, later known as the Quasi-War. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts)
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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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The United States purchased a big section of land from the French for $15 million dollars. This had an impact of showing that the United States was growing at an amazing rate reaching from Ohio as the furthest state from the Atlantic in 1803 to Oregon in only 57 years.
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The case began on March 2, 1801, when an obscure Federalist, William Marbury, was designated as a justice of the peace in the District of Columbia. Marbury and several others were appointed to government posts created by Congress in the last days of John Adams's presidency, but these last-minute appointments were never fully finalized. The disgruntled appointees invoked an act of Congress and sued for their jobs in the Supreme Court. (http://www.oyez.org/cases/1792-1850/1803/1803_0/)
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Ohio gains statehood
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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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Louisiana gains statehood
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In the War of 1812, the United States took on the greatest naval power in the world, Great Britain, in a conflict that would have an immense impact on the young country’s future. Causes of the war included British attempts to restrict U.S. trade, the Royal Navy’s impressment of American seamen and America’s desire to expand its territory.
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Horace Mann became the catalyst for tuition-free public education and established the concept of state-sponsored free schools. The zeal with which Mann executed his plan for free schools was in keeping with the intellectual climate of Boston in the early days of the republic.
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Indiana gains statehood
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Mississippi gains statehood
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Frederick Douglass, a former slave and eminent human rights leader in the abolition movement, was the first black citizen to hold a high U.S. government rank.
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Illinois gains statehood
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This treaty was between The United States and Spain. The United States wanted Florida from Spain and Spain said fine in return for Texas.
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In 1816, the New Hampshire legislature attempted to change Dartmouth College-- a privately funded institution--into a state university. The legislature changed the school's corporate charter by transferring the control of trustee appointments to the governor. 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. (http://www.oyez.org/cases/1792-1850/1818/1818_0)
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In 1816, Congress chartered The Second Bank of the United States. In 1818, the state of Maryland passed legislation to impose taxes on the bank. James W. McCulloch, the cashier of the Baltimore branch of the bank, refused to pay the tax. (http://www.oyez.org/cases/1792-1850/1819/1819_0)
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Alabama gains statehood
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The Missouri Compromise was a federal statute in the United States that regulated slavery in the country's western territories. The compromise, devised by Henry Clay, was agreed to by the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress and passed as a law in 1820.
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Maine gains statehood
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Missouri gains statehood
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The New York law gave Indiviual people the right to operate steamboats with in the state's jurisdiction. This lead to other states doing the same, leading to trade between states.
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. Players: Thomas Gibbons and Aaron Ogden. Outcome: Gibb:6 Ogden:0 -
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The goal of the abolitionist movement was the immediate emancipation of all slaves and the end of racial discrimination and segregation. Advocating for immediate emancipation distinguished abolitionists from more moderate anti-slavery advocates who argued for gradual emancipation, and from free-soil activists who sought to restrict slavery to existing areas and prevent its spread further west.
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Nat Turner's Rebellion (also known as the Southampton Insurrection) was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the American South.
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John Marshall was the fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. His court opinions helped lay the basis for United States constitutional law and made the Supreme Court of the United States a coequal branch of government along with the legislative and executive branches. Previously, Marshall had been a leader of the Federalist Party in Virginia and served in the United States House of Representatives from 1799 to 1800. (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Marshall)
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Arkansas gains statehood
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Michigan gains statehood
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The goal of the abolitionist movement was the immediate emancipation of all slaves and the end of racial discrimination and segregation. Advocating for immediate emancipation distinguished abolitionists from more moderate anti-slavery advocates who argued for gradual emancipation, and from free-soil activists who sought to restrict slavery to existing areas and prevent its spread further west.
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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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Florida gains statehood
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Texas gains statehood
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The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. It pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against the expansionist-minded administration of U.S. President James K. Polk, who believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.
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Iowa gains statehood
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Wisconsin gains statehood
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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". Held in Seneca Falls, New York, it spanned two days over July 19–20, 1848. Attracting widespread attention, it was soon followed by other women's rights conventions, including one in Rochester, New York two weeks later. In 1850 the first in a series of annual National Women's Rights Conventions met in Worcester MA.
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Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad - Meet Amazing Americans. America's Library - Library of Congress. 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. (http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/tubman/aa_tubman_rail_1.html)
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California gains statehood
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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. She gave herself the name Sojourner Truth in 1843. Her best-known extemporaneous speech on gender inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?", was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention. She died in 1883 in Battle Creek MI.
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Dred Scott was a slave from Missouri. We lived in Illinois, which was a free state part of the Louisiana purchase. After returning, Scott sued the Missouri Goverment. Players: Dred Scottand Missouri government. Outcome: Missouri government win
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Minnesota gains statehood
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Oregon gains statehood
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