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Delaware
Delaware, Dec. 7, 1787, The nation's first scheduled steam railroad began in New Castle in 1831. -
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania joined the states Dec. 12, 1787, In 1909 the first baseball stadium was built in Pittsburgh. -
New Jersey
Admission to Statehood: December 18, 1787 (3rd State),North Jersey is the car theft capital of the world, with more cars stolen in Newark then any other city. Even the 2 largest cities, NYC and LA put together. -
Georgia
Admission to Statehood: January 2, 1788 (4th State)Coca-Cola was invented in May 1886 by Dr. John S. Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia. The name "Coca-Cola" was suggested by Dr. Pemberton's bookkeeper, Frank Robinson. He penned the name Coca-Cola in the flowing script that is famous today. Coca-Cola was first sold at a soda fountain in Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta by Willis Venable. -
Connecticut
Admission to Statehood: January 9, 1788 (5th State), The USS Nautilus - the world's first nuclear powered submarine was built in Groton in 1954. -
Massachusetts
Admission to Statehood: February 6, 1788 (6th State), Boston built the first subway system in the United States in 1897. -
Maryland
Admission to Statehood: April 28, 1788 (7th State), The National Aquarium is located in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. -
South Carolina
Admission to Statehood: May 23, 1788 (8th State), The first battle of the Civil War took place at Fort Sumter. -
New Hampshire
Admission to Statehood: June 21, 1788 (9th State), The highest wind speed recorded at ground level is at Mt. Washington, on April 12, 1934. The winds were three times as fast as those in most hurricanes. -
Virginia
Admission to Statehood: June 25, 1788 (10th State), The State nickname is "Old Dominion". -
New York
Admission to Statehood: July 26, 1788 (11th State), 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. -
George Washington president
On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. -
North Carolina
Admission to Statehood: November 21, 1789 (12th State), North Carolina is the largest producer of sweet potatoes in the nation. Students at a Wilson County school petitioned the North Carolina General Assembly for the establishment of the sweet potato as the official state vegetable. -
Rhode Island
Admission to Statehood: May 29, 1790 (13th State), Rhode Island was the last of the original thirteen colonies to become a state. -
The whiskey rebellion
Whiskey Rebellion
Date: 1791-1794 What happened:
- This was the first real test on the new United States Government,to enforce the federal laws. In western Pennsylvania people used a lot of whiskey, both for money and to use up extra corn. They passed a tax on whiskey in 1791, farmers refused to pay the tax, and saying it was like the stamp act all over again. There was a lot of trouble for a few years until George w. Sent out a militia to put an end to the madness. -
Vermont
Admission to Statehood: March 4, 1791 (14th State), Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds. -
Kentucky
Admission to Statehood: June 1, 1792 (15th State), Cheeseburgers were first served in 1934 at Kaolin's restaurant in Louisville. -
Tennessee
Admission to Statehood: June 1, 1796 (16th State), The Tennessee Aquarium is the largest facility of its kind to focus on fresh water habitat. It features 7,000 animals and 300 species of fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals. -
Washingtons farewell address
Washington departed the presidency and the nation's then capital city of Philadelphia in September 1796 with a characteristic sense of how to take dramatic advantage of the moment.The Farewell Address definitely embodies the core beliefs that Washington hoped would continue to guide the nation. Several hands produced the document itself. -
John Adams president
served as the second president of the United States (1797-1801), after serving as the first vice president under George Washington. -
Sojourner Truth
Women's Rights Activist, Civil Rights Activist (1797–1883).Sojourner Truth is best known for her extemporaneous speech on racial inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?" delivered at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in 1851. -
Alien and sedition acts 1798
Alien and sedition acts
1798
John Adams sent four bills passed by the federalists,federalist wanted to protect themselves from immigrants. -
Thomas Jefferson president
Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and the third President of the United States (1801–1809). -
Major cases of John Marshall Supreme Court Chief Justice
Dates: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).Through his early decisions, he established that the US Supreme Court would have the power to review state courts, state laws, and even federal laws to determine if they were constitutional or not. -
Marbury v. Madison
The case resulted from a petition to the Supreme Court by William Marbury, who had been appointed Justice of the Peace in the District of Columbia by President John Adams but whose commission was not subsequently delivered. Marbury petitioned the Supreme Court to force the new Secretary of State James Madison to deliver the documents. He later was denied. There was a court case about our now Supreme Court.James Madison, George w. And John Marshall and William marbury. -
Ohio
Admission to Statehood: March 1, 1803 (17th State), Akron was the first city to use police cars. -
The Louisiana purchase
The Louisiana Purchase encompassed 530,000,000 acres of territory in North America that the United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million. -
Lewis and Clark
Date: December 1803
People: The youngest man, George Shannon, was 17 years old, the oldest, John Shields, was 35. The average age of all the men was 27. -
James Madison
James Madison, America's fourth President (1809-1817). made a major contribution to the ratification of the Constitution by writing The Federalist Papers, along with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay. In later years, he was referred to as the "Father of the Constitution." -
The war of 1812
War of 1812
1812-1815
US vs Ireland and Great Britain
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Louisiana
Admission to Statehood: April 30, 1812 (18th State), Breaux Bridge is known as the "Crawfish Capital of the World". -
John Tyler
John Tyler became the tenth President of the United States (1841–1845) when William Henry Harrison, his running mate, died in April 1841. He was the first Vice President elevated to President after the death of William Harrison. -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Biography
Women's Rights Activist (1815–1902), Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an early leader of the woman's rights movement, writing the Declaration of Sentiments as a call to arms for female equality.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton held the famous Seneca Falls Convention in July 1848. At this meeting, the attendees drew up its “Declaration of Sentiments” and took the lead in proposing that women be granted the right to vote. She continued to write and lecture on women's rights. -
Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
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.Conclusion
Decision: 5 votes for Dartmouth College, 1 vote(s) against -
Horace Mann’s campaign for free compulsory public education.
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. -
Indiana
Admission to Statehood: December 11,1816 (19th State), In Fort Wayne, Syvanus F. Bower designed the world's first practical gasoline pump. -
James Monroe
James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States (1817–1825) and the last president from the Founding Fathers of the United States. -
Mississippi
Admission to Statehood: December 10, 1817 (20th State), Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, on January 8, 1935. -
Illinois
Admission to Statehood: December 3, 1818 (21st State), The first Aquarium opened in Chicago, 1893. -
Missouri Compromise
In February 1819, the territory of Missouri petitioned Congress to be admitted as a state. At the time, America consisted of 11 slave and 11 free states, so the question was whether Missouri, with 10,000 slaves, should be admitted as a slave state or be forced to free its slaves before it was allowed into the fold.Missouri was admitted as a slave state, and the territory of Maine came in as a free state, keeping a balance of 12 slave and 12 free. -
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
The state of Maryland cannot tax the federal Bank of the United States. This Case also set a precedent for the federalist doctrine of “loose construction” of the interpretation of the Constitution. The case involves an attempt by the state of Maryland to destroy a branch of the Bank of the United States by putting a tax on its notes. John Marshall declares the Bank of the United States Constitutional by the Hamiltonian Doctrine of implied powers (think necessary -
Transcontinental Treaty (1819)
The colonies of East Florida and West Florida remained loyal to the British during the war for American independence, but by the Treaty of Paris in 1783 they returned to Spanish control. After 1783, Americans immigrants moved into West Florida.
In return, the United States recognized Spanish sovereignty over Texas. -
Alabama
Alabama workers built the first rocket to put humans on the moon.Admission to Statehood:
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Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1820.After teaching for fifteen years, she became active in temperance. Because she was a woman, she was not allowed to speak at temperance rallies. This experience, and her acquaintance with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led her to join the women's rights movement in 1852. Soon after, she dedicated her life to woman suffrage. -
Maine
Admission to Statehood: March 15, 1820 (23rd State), Maine produces 99% of all the blueberries in the country making it the single largest producer of blueberries in the United States. -
Missouri
Admission to Statehood: August 10, 1821 (24th State), Missouri is known as the "Show Me State". -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was articulated in President James Monroe's seventh annual message to Congress on December 2, 1823. The European powers, according to Monroe, were obligated to respect the Western Hemisphere as the United States' sphere of interest. -
Gibbons v. Ogden
Facts of the Case
A New York state law gave to individuals the exclusive right to operate steamboats on waters within state jurisdiction. Laws like this one were duplicated elsewhere which led to friction as some states would require foreign (out-of-state) boats to pay substantial fees for navigation privileges. 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 -
JQ Adams
John Quincy Adams, son of John and Abigail Adams, served as the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. A member of multiple political parties over the years, he also served as a diplomat, a Senator and member of the House of Representatives. -
Andrew Jackson president
Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837, seeking to act as the direct representative of the common man. -
Abolitionist Movement
Started in 1764,Some of the most outspoken black antislavery advocates, or abolitionists, were runaway or former slaves. However, African Americans born free also identified with the struggle against slavery. Although African Americans spearheaded their own efforts to end slavery, the nation was predominantly white. Therefore, white abolitionists and their resources were critical in the fight to end slavery.
Anthony Benezet,David Walker, William Lloyd Garrison,Frederick Douglass. -
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison was born December 10, 1805 in Newburyport, Massachusetts. In 1830 he started an abolitionist paper, The Liberator. In 1832 he helped form the New England Antislavery Society. When the Civil War broke out, he continued to blast the Constitution as a pro-slavery document. When the civil war ended, he at last saw the abolition of slavery. He died May 24, 1879 in New York. -
Nat Turner
Nat Turner was the leader of a violent slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831.Nat Turner, born into slavery on October 2, 1800, on a Southampton County plantation, became a preacher who claimed he had been chosen by God to lead slaves from bondage. On August 21, 1831, he led a violent insurrection. He hid for six weeks but was eventually caught and later hanged. The incident ended the emancipation movement in that region and led to even harsher laws against slaves. -
Dred Scott vs Sandford
Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri. From 1833 to 1843, he resided in Illinois (a free state) and in an area of the Louisiana Territory, where slavery was forbidden by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. 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
The Court then held the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, hoping to end the slavery. -
Mexican-American war
The war between Mexico and the United States had its beginnings with the struggle over who would control Texas.
Later more
And more Americans moved into Texas and Texas later became a state into the U.S.
In the end we gained Texas. -
Arkansas
Admission to Statehood: June 15, 1836 (25th State)North Little Rock offers one of the nation's largest municipal parks. -
Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren was the eighth President of the United States (1837–1841), after serving as the eighth Vice President and the tenth secretary of state, both under Andrew Jackson. While the country was prosperous when the "Little Magician" was elected, less than three months later the financial panic of 1837 punctured the prosperity. -
Michigan
Admission to Statehood: January 26, 1837 (26th State), Michigan has 116 lighthouses and navigational lights. -
Trail of tears 1838-1839
Trail of tears
1838-1839
Andrew Jackson was president, Indian removal after gold was found, many African Americans were removed and walked to different lands, that's why it was called the trail of tears -
The manifest destiny
The term manifest destiny originated in the 1840s. It expressed the belief that it was Anglo-Saxon Americans’ providential mission to expand their civilization and institutions across the breadth of North America. This expansion would involve not merely territorial aggrandizement but the progress of liberty and individual economic opportunity as well. -
Seneca Falls Resolution
The seed for the first Woman's Rights Convention was planted in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, the conference that refused to seat Mott and other women delegates from America because of their sex. Stanton, the young bride of an antislavery agent, and Mott, a Quaker preacher and veteran of reform, talked then of calling a convention to address the condition of women. Eight years later, it came about as a spontaneous event. -
William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison, an American military officer and politician, was the ninth President of the United States (1841), the oldest president to be elected at the time. He became the first to die in office on his 32nd day, serving the shortest time in United States presidential history. -
Florida
Admission to Statehood: March 3, 1845 (27th State), Cape Canaveral in Florida is America's launch pad for space flights. -
James Polk
Often referred to as the first "dark horse," James Knox Polk was the 11th President of the United States from 1845-1849, the last strong President until the Civil War. -
Texas
Admission to Statehood: December 29, 1845 (28th State), More wool comes from the state of Texas than any other state in the United States. -
Iowa
Admission to statehood: December 28, 1846 (29th state), Strawberry Point is the home of the world's largest strawberry. -
Wisconsin
Admission to Statehood: May 29, 1848 (30th State), Wisconsin produces more milk than any other state. -
Seneca falls convention
In July 19, 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott spearheaded the first women's rights convention in American history. Although the Convention was hastily organized and hardly publicized, over 300 men and women came to Seneca Falls, New York to protest the mistreatment of women in social, economic, political, and religious life. -
Zachary Taylor
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, was later elected the 12th President of the United States, serving from March 1849 until his death in July 1850. -
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors." During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. And, as she once proudly pointed out to Frederick Douglass, in all of her journeys she "never lost a single passenger."She followed the North Star by night, making her way to Pennsylvania and soon after to Philadelphia, where she found work and saved her money. Also went to Maryland to take sister to freedom -
Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore, a member of the Whig party, was the 13th President of the United States (1850–1853) and the last president not to be affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties. -
California
Admission to Statehood: September 9, 1850 (31st State), More turkeys are raised in California than in any other state in the United States. -
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass Biography
Civil Rights Activist (1818–1895)
Abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland. He became one of the most famous intellectuals of his time, advising presidents and lecturing to thousands on a range of causes, including women’s rights and Irish home rule. Among Douglass’ writings are several autobiographies eloquently describing his experiences in slavery and his life after the Civil war. -
Franklin pierce
Franklin Pierce became 14th President of the United States at a time of apparent tranquility (1853–1857). By pursuing the recommendations of southern advisers, Pierce--a New Englander--hoped to prevent still another outbreak of that storm. -
James Buchanan
James Buchanan, America’s 15th president, was in office from 1857 to 1861. During his time as president, seven Southern states seceded from the Union and the nation was on the brink of civil war. A Pennsylvania native, Buchanan began his political career in his home state’s legislature and went on to serve in both houses of the U.S. Congress. He later became a foreign diplomat and U.S. secretary of state. -
Minnesota
Admission to Statehood: May 11, 1858 (32nd State), The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is the largest urban sculpture garden in the country. -
Oregon
Admission to Statehood: February 14, 1859 (33rd State), Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States and is formed in the remains of an ancient volcano. -
John Brown and the armed resistance
On October 16, 1859, 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. He would seize the arms and ammunition in the federal arsenal, arm slaves in the area and move south along the Appalachian Mountains, attracting slaves to his cause. He had no rations. He had no escape route. His plan was doomed from the very beginning. But it did succeed to deepen the divide between the North and South. -
Abe Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863.
