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The first state
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First of the fifty states to list their URL on a license plate
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Most dense system of highways and railroads in the US
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Georgia Tech once beat Cumberland University 222 - 0 in a football game
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There were two capitals of the state
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The first US postal zip code in Massachusetts is 01001 at Agawam
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King Williams School was the first school to open in the US
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Chris Rock is from S.C.
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First to declare independence from Mother England
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Named for England's "Virgin Queen", Elizabeth
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11th state to ratify the constitution
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George Washington was the first president in American history
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Whitewater Falls in Transylvania County is the nights waterfall in the Eastern US
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Rhode Island is the smallest state in the US (square miles)
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First state admitted to the union after the ratification of the constitution
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Farmers resisted a tax on whiskey. It showed hat the government can suppress a rebellion.
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The town of Murray is home to the Boy Scouts of America Scouting Museum located on the campus of Murray State University
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The city of Kingston served as capitol for one day
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Didn't want America to look like England so he said to stay away from alliances.
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Alien and Sedation acts were passed by the Feds in 1798 and signed into law by President John Adams. These laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote.
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Wrote the Declaration of Independence
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Big cases- Marbury v. Madison, Fletcher v. Peck, McHulloch v. Maryland, Cohens v. Virginia, and Gibbons v. Ogden
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Lewis and Clark went on a two year journey to the great ocean (the pacific)
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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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Ohio senetor John Glenn became the oldest man to venture into outer space on February 20
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Marbury- argued that he was entitled to his commission and that the judicial act of 1789 gave the Supreme Court of the United States original jurisdiction Madison- was sued by Madbury and asked the Supreme Court of the United States to issue a court order that requires an official to perform or refrain from performing a certain duty
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Didn't found a college but had one named after him
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Iceland vs the North American colonies and it's Native American allies. War at the end of the war disappeared between Britain and France and the destruction of the powers of the tribes and fears of the native Americans
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Named in honor of King Louis XIV
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She helped organixe the first women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls on July 19th and 20th. Over 300 people attended. Stanton drafted a Declaration of Sediments, which she read at the convention.
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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 toy e college. Then the state legislature of New Hampshire passed laws that revised the charter, making the college public.
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Abraham Lincoln moved to Indiana when he was seven
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Died on the Fourth of July and bought Florida from Spain and extended America's border to the pacific thought the Treaty of 1818 with Britain
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The first nuclear submarine built in the south was produced in Mississippi
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His role in the movement was travel and deliver speeches, distribute pamphlets, and and get subscribers to the Liberator.
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The world's first skyscraper was built in Chicago.
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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 Onis 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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In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress has implied powers under the Necessary and Proper Clause of Article 1, section 8 of the constitution to create the second bank of the U.S. and that the state of Maryland lacked the power to tax the Bank.
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Alabama workers built the first rocket to put humans on the moon.
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This movement was an attempt to abolish slavery. This movement was lead by William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Harriet Breecher Stowe
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1851- Susan travels to Syracuse, N.Y., anti-slavery convention. She visits Amelia Bloomer, hears William Lloyd Garrison and George Thompson, and meets Elizabeth Cdy Stanton
1856- Anthony becomes agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society
1898- The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, A Story of the Evolution of the Status of Women is published. Anthony establishes a press bureau to feed articles on woman suffrage to the national and local press -
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 36 parallel, which runs approximately along the southern border of Missouri.
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The only state in the United States that has a one-syllable name.
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Missouri is known ash the "Show Me State".
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James Monroe gave a speech with a message that said the United States would remain neutral in European affairs and not get involved with European conflicts.
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The American frontier moved west and settlers pushed beyond the Appalachains into the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys, the question of commercial development became very important. Cheif Justice Marshall delivered the opinion and sided with Gibbons.
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Married to America's only foreign born First Lady and is also been called the Negotiator of Peace
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Ignored a Supreme Court ruling and forcibly removed the cherokee nation from its homeland, also defeated the British at the battle of New Orleans and paid off national debt
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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 sixty some white men, women, and children
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He and his group wanted education to be free for all students
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Famous singer, Johnny Cash, was born in Kingsland, Arkansas.
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Detroit is known as the car capital of the world.
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Enforced the Ondian Removal Act of 1830, removing all natives from their homes and moving them west of the Mississippi, as an even known as the Tril of Tears
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As part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up their land East of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-dat Oklahoma
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Died soon after he took the position as president. Famously lead battle when the natives resisted and be defeated the Shawnee tribe
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Sided with the confederate government upon the outbreak of the civil war (after presidency) and won the election to the confederate House of Representatives shortly before his death.
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On June 1st, 1843, she became a methodist. Her speech "AIN'T I A WOMAN?" was delivered in 1851. Sojourner Truth gave speeches on abolishing slavery.
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Greater Miami is the only metropolitan area in the United States whose borders encompass two national parks.
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Increased the united States more than any other president did thought the acquisition of California and new mexico as a result of the Mexican-American War
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Texas is popularly known as te Lone Star State because it was once its own country.
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Texas is popularly known as te Lone Star State because it was once its own country.
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Wanting land, the war was primarily a territorial dispute caused by the United States' policy of manifest destiny. President Polk and the American continent regardless of the anti e people already residing on the land. Texas was gained from this war.
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Strawberry Point is the home of the world's largest strawberry.
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The primary goal was to discuss the rights of women.
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Wisconsin visitors and residents enjoy the states 7,446 streams and rivers. End-to-end they'd stretch 26,767 miles.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott spearheaded the first women's rights convention in American history.
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Was not known for education and had no political background. He was elected for his history as a war hero.
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He was in office for less than three years but his his acceptance of the Comprimise of 1850 averted the Coivil War for another 11 years
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Sectional conflict over the extension of slavery into the Western territories threatened to tear the nation apart.
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He was president in during a critical time in american history and the country had become more polarized in northern and southern interests.
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After Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery, she returned to slave-holding states many times to help other slaves escape. She lead them safely to the northern free states and to Canad. It was very dangerous to be a runaway slave. She made 19 trips to Maryland and helped 300 people to freedom. During these dangerous journeys she halped rescure members from her own family, including her 70-year-old parents
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Vetoed bills concerning the establishment of colleges
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The Mall of America in Bloomington is the size of 78 football fields --- 9.5 million square feet
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Brown was upset because he wanted to start a liberation movemetn among enslaved African Americans in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He was found guilty and executed for killing slave owners and was hung.
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Oregon has more ghost towns than any other state.
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Issued the Emancipation Proclamation which began the freedom for America's slaves. The document also allowed black soldiers to fight for the union. Assassination in April, 1865
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Is a term for the attitude prevalent durning the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to stretch from coast to coast.
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John Adams defended British soldiers who killed five Americans in the Boston massacre
