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Delaware
Delaware was the first state to ratify the United States constitution -
Pennsylvania
Hershey is considered the Chocolate Capital of the United States -
New Jersey
Atlantic City is where the street names came from for the game monopoly -
Georgia
Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi River. -
Connecticut
Connecticut State insect is the Praying Mantis. -
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
Seven Presidents are buried in Virginia -
New York
The first American chess tournament was held in New York in 1843 -
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Washington
He successfully attacked the French camp near Jumonville -
North Carolina
The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill is the oldest State University in the United States. -
Rhode Island
Rhode Island was the last of the original thirteen colonies to become a state. -
Vermont
Until 1996, Vermont was the only state without a Wal-Mart. -
Kentucky
The Bluegrass Country around Lexington is home to some of the world's finest racehorses -
The whiskey rebellion
A force of disaffected whiskey rebels attacked and destroyed the home of a tax inspector.
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Tennessee
There were more National Guard soldiers deployed from the state for the Gulf War effort than any other state. -
Washingtons farewell address
George Washington's Farewell Address is a letter written by the first American President, George Washington, to "The People of the United States of America".
Washington warned against sectionalism as the destroyer of the common interest and national character. -
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Adams
kept America out of war with France -
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Jefferson
Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and following exploration of Lewis and Clark by expanding our country from ocean to ocean for 15 million dollars -
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Chief Justice John Marshall
Marshall vs stern
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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 result of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with France, later known as the Quasi-War. -
Marbury vs Madison
it was the first time a law of Congress was ever declared unconstitutional, or in conflict with the Constitution -
Ohio
The first ambulance service was established in Cincinnati in 1865. -
Lewis & Clark
The expedition was commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson shortly after the Louisiana Purchase -
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Madison
Renewed the charter for the Bank of the United States to raise funds for the War of 1812 -
War of 1812
United States took on the greatest naval power in the world. The Republican Congress also raised taxes, including dreaded internal taxes, conditioned on war actually breaking out. -
Louisiana
Eastern brown pelican is the state bird. -
Indiana
Explorers Lewis and Clark set out from Fort Vincennes on their exploration of the Northwest Territory -
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Monroe
Presided over the highly controversial Missouri Compromise of 1820 -
Mississippi
Borden's Condensed Milk was first canned in Liberty -
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing. Wikipedia -
Illinois
The Sears Tower, Chicago is the tallest building on the North American continent -
Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
A landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court
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Transcontinental Treaty
these American settlers in West Florida rebelled -
McCulloch v. Maryland
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. McCulloch was convicted by a Maryland court and fined $2,500. -
Alabama
Alabama workers built the first rocket to put humans on the moon. -
Horace Mann
Arguing that universal public education was the best way to turn the nation's unruly children into disciplined, judicious republican citizens, Mann won widespread approval from modernizers, -
Susan B. Anthony
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. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was a federal statute in the United States that regulated slavery in the country's western territories. -
Maine
Maine is the only state in the United States whose name has one syllable -
Missouri
The state animal is the Mule -
Monroe Doctrine
the best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere. -
Gibbons v. Ogden
A New York state law gave to individuals the exclusive right to operate steamboats on waters within state jurisdiction.
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JQ Adams
supported infrastructural and educational improvements in the shape of federal projects -
Sojourner Truth
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 -
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Jackson
Paid off the national debt -
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Abolitionist Movement
The goal of the abolitionist movement was the immediate emancipation of all slaves and the end of racial discrimination and segregation. -
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. -
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
By about mid-day on August 22, Turner decided to march toward Jerusalem Nat Turner hid in several different places -
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Trail of tears
The Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate. Andrew Jackson was the president at the time. -
Arkansas
Famous singer Johnny Cash was born in Kingsland -
Michigan
Detroit is known as the car capital of the world. -
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Van buren
Enforced the Indian Removal Act of 1830 -
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Harrison
Signed the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 into law. -
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Tyler
Sided with the Confederate government upon the outbreak of the Civil -
Florida
Miami installed the first bank automated teller machine especially for rollerbladers -
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Polk
He led the nation to war with Mexico and acquired large amounts of territory during his term in office. -
Manifest Destiny
This attitude helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with Mexico. -
Texas
Texas is popularly known as The Lone Star State. -
Iowa
Dubuque is the state's oldest city. -
Wisconsin
The state is nicknamed the Badger State. -
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 -
Reneca falls resolution
Resolved, That the equality of human rights results necessarily from the fact of the identity of the race in capabilities and responsibilities. -
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Taylor
Encouraged New Mexico and California to bypass the territorial stage altogether -
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Fillmore
Fillmore's greatest accomplishment is the Compromise of 1850 -
California
More turkeys are raised in California than in any other state in the United States. -
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Pierce
Signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 -
Harriet Trubman
Harriet Tubman was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and during the American Civil War, a Union spy. Wikipedia -
Dred Scott vs Sandford
Scott's master maintained that no pure-blooded Negro of African descent and the descendant of slaves could be a citizen in the sense of Article III of the Constitution. -
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Buchanan
Said to be the worst president ever -
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Lincoln
Remembered for his vital role as leader -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement.
