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Delaware admitted to Union
The Delaware state flag has a background of colonial blue surrounding a diamond of buff color in which the coat of arms of the state is placed. -
Pennsylvania admitted to union
An act of the General Assembly of June 13, 1907, standardized the flag and required that the blue field match the blue of Old Glory. -
New Jersey admitted to union
The two women on the flag, represent the goddesses of Liberty and Agriculture. A ribbon at the bottom includes the year of independence in 1776 and reads: Liberty and Prosperity. -
Georgia admitted to union
In Gainesville, the Chicken Capital of the World it is illegal to eat chicken with a fork. Gainesville is in Georgia. -
Connecticut admitted in union
Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition). -
Massachusetts admitted to union
The Fig Newton was named after Newton, Massachusetts. -
Maryland admitted to union
King Williams School opened in 1696 it was the first school in the United States. -
South Carolina admitted to union
The walls of the American fort on Sullivan Island, in Charleston Harbor, were made of spongy Palmetto logs. This was helpful in protecting the fort because the British cannonballs bounced off the logs. -
New Hampshire admitted to union
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., the first American to travel in space is from East Derry, New Hampshire. -
Virginia admitted to union
Jamestown was the first English settlement in the U.S. It was also the first capital of Virginia. -
New York admitted to union
The Woodstock Music and Arts Fair was actually held in Bethel -
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George Washington's presidency
When Washington retired he was very popular. He could've ran again because at the time we did not have a law against it. He said this"I constantly hoped, that it would have been much earlier in my power, consistently with motives, which I was not at liberty to disregard, to return to that retirement, from which I had been reluctantly drawn." This was his greatest moment because it was very honorable. When he was president America was new so he had a lot of law and stuff to sort out. -
North Carolina admitted to union
In 1903 the Wright Brothers made the first successful powered flight by man at Kill Devil Hill near Kitty Hawk. The Wright Memorial at Kitty Hawks now commemorates their achievement. -
Rhode Island admitted to union
Rhode Island is the smallest state in size in the United States. It covers an area of 1,214 square miles. Its distances North to South are 48 miles and East to West 37 miles. -
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The Whiskey Rebellion
(Sorry couldn't find exact dates.) This was a rebellion against taxes. Whiskey got taxed and since it was a very popular drink at the time everyone got real upset. The tax was made to get out of dept. Some people even hurt or beat up the tax collectors just to protest. It's significants was to fight for our rights and show that America was suposed to not have anything like large taxes since that's what we ran away from in the first place. -
Vermont admitted to union
With a population of fewer than nine thousand people, Montpelier, Vermont is the smallest state capital in the U.S. -
Kentucky admitted to union
Kentucky was a popular hunting ground for the Shawnee and Cherokee Indian nations prior to being settled by white settlers. -
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Horace Mann’s campaign for free compulsory public education.
Mann and his group wanted to have an education system that didn't have any discrimination against anyone. -
Tennessee admitted to union
Tennessee won its nickname as The Volunteer State during the War of 1812 when volunteer soldiers from Tennessee displayed marked valor in the Battle of New Orleans. -
Washington’s Farewell Address
This was a speech made by George Washington saying that he was no going to be Americas leader anymore. He said this"I constantly hoped, that it would have been much earlier in my power, consistently with motives, which I was not at liberty to disregard, to return to that retirement, from which I had been reluctantly drawn." And that was why he had decided retrieving was the best choice. -
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John Adam's presidency
The XYZ Affair was a series of diplomatic events that involved the U.S. and France during the late 1790s and was one of the most pressing issues during John Adams’ presidency. This incident resulted in an undeclared war known as the Quasi-War. John Adams' greatest accomplishments include becoming the first Vice President and the second President of the United States as well as establishing some of the fundamentals of the constitution. -
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. (Couldn't find an exact date for this.) They were passed because Immigration was not something many people were fond of. These laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrant -
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Thomas Jefferson's presidency
In 1803 as President of the United States, Jefferson purchased more than 800,000 square miles of Louisiana Territory from France for about $15 million, effectively doubling the size of the United States. Things that happened during his timespan are the Lewis and Clark exposition. -
Chief Justice John Marshall
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. -
Louisiana Purchase
Sorry couldn't find an exact date. This situation was threatened by Napoleon Bonaparte’s plans to revive the French empire in the New World. He planned to recapture the valuable sugar colony of St. Domingue from a slave rebellion, and then use Louisiana as the granary for his empire. France acquired Louisiana from Spain in 1800 and took possession in 1802, sending a large French army to St. Domingue and preparing to send another to New Orleans. -
Ohio admitted to union
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Marbury vs Madison
In November 1800, President John Adams, a Federalist, lost his bid for reelection to Thomas Jefferson, a Republican. The Federalists also lost control of Congress in the election. For the few months before the new President and Congress took office, however, Adams and his Federalist Party. The players in this were John Marshall and Marbury Madison. This case impacted the way the American court system works and it even changed some things. Marbury won. -
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The Lewis and Clark exposition
The Lewis and Clark exposition (aka corps of discovery exposition) was the first exposition to cross into the western area of the United States. They started in May 1804 and ended in September 1806. The export ion was used to study the area by journaling it and report back to St. Louis. The people that went on this trip were Captain Meriwether Lewis and his friend William Clark. They went from the Mississippi River and made their way west through the continental divide to the Pacific Coast. -
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William Lloyd Garrison
Garrison was unyeilding and steadfast in his beliefs. He believed that the the Anti-Slavery Society should not align itself with any political party. He believed that women should be allowed to participate in the Anti-Slavery Society. He believed that the U.S. Constitution was a pro-slavery document. Many within the Society differed with these positions, however, and in 1840 there was a major rift in the Society which resulted in the founding of two additional organizations. -
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James Madison's presidency
One of James Madison's greatest accomplishments was that he renewed the charter for the Bank of the United States to raise funds for the War of 1812. Some stuff that happened during his presidency was that after negotiations with British minister Erskine, Madison issues a proclamation -- known as the Erskine Agreement -- revoking the embargo on Britain, effective June 10. For his part, Erskine leads Madison to believe that Britain will revoke its Orders in Council. -
Louisiana admitted to union
Louisiana was named in honor of King Louis XIV. -
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War of 1812
This war was the U.S vs Britian. The War of 1812 was, in a sense, the Second War for Independence, in that if the U.S. lost to Britain, then Britain might very well take over the country and colonize it again. But by defeating the strongest nation in the world for the second time, the U.S. proved that it had a right to exist, a right to be its own country, and a right to be a power in the international stage. -
Indiana admitted to union
Abraham Lincoln moved to Indiana when he was 7 years old. He lived most of his boyhood life in Spencer County with his parents Thomas and Nancy. -
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James Monroe's presidency
One of the things that happened while James Monroe was president was the Panic of 1819 begins to take shape. A sharp decline in real estate values and a severe credit contraction (an inability to secure bank loans) inflates the currency and causes imports and prices to fall. In March, the price of cotton collapses in the English market. The conservative policies of the Second Bank of the United States, founded in 1816, accelerates the crisis, which ends around 1823. January 1819. -
Mississippi admitted to union
Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, on January 8, 1935. -
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Frederick Douglass
At the invitation of the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society, Frederick Douglass delivered this speech on July 5, 1852, at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York. It was reported and reprinted in Northern newspapers and was published and sold as a forty-page pamphlet within weeks of its delivery. -
Illinois admitted to union
Ottawa, Freeport, Jonesboro, Charleston, Galesburg, Quincy and Alton hosted the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates that stirred interest all over the country in the slavery issue. -
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
Marshall asserts the Constitution’s safeguards of government trying to change or nullify contracts, a decision that will set the precedent of safeguarding business from state legislatures and later allowing corporations to escape government control. Dartmouth College was given a charter by King George III in 1769 and the state of New Hampshire was trying to change Dartmouth’s charter. Marshall and the Supreme Court ruled that the charter was a contract. -
McCullouch v. Maryland
James W. McCulloch, a Federal cashier at the Baltimore branch of the U.S. bank, refused to pay the taxes imposed by the state. Maryland filed a suit against McCulloch in an effort to collect the taxes.. The state of Maryland had attempted to impede operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a tax on all notes of banks not chartered in Maryland. -
Alabama admitted to union
The town of Enterprise houses the Boll Weevil Monument to acknowledge the role this destructive insect played in encouraging farmers to grow crops other than cotton. -
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Susan B. Anthony
She devoted her life to not only fighting for women’s equality but for the equality of all people. She was deeply self-conscious of her looks and speaking abilities, but because her Quaker upbringing had placed her on equal footing with the male members of the family and encouraged to express herself, she overcame these fears to more effectively fight for equal rights. Wary of not being taken seriously, she rarely smiled in photographs, appearing stern and severe. -
Missouri Compromise
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.The House passed his amendments, along strictly regional voting lines, but the Senate, where representation of free and slaveholding states were balanced, rejected it. This impacted the slavery issue greatly. Getting more and more people to think about what their really doing. -
James Monroe's greatest Moment
On March 6, 1820, President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise. The Compromise was made up of three parts: it admitted Maine, part of northern Massachusetts, as a free state; it admitted Missouri as a slave state; and it henceforth restricted slavery to territories south of the latitude 36º30' north. -
Maine admitted to union
Approximately 40 millions pounds (nearly 90 percent) of the nation's lobster supply is caught off the coast of Maine. -
Missouri admitted to union
The 'Show Me State' expression may have began in 1899 when Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver stated, "I'm from Missouri and you've got to show me." This is also know as the best thing ever because of its historical hilarity. -
Monroe Doctrine
This was James Monroes speech. In this important speech, Monroe establishes what becomes known as the Monroe Doctrine, warning the European powers that "we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety." The President goes on to discuss American neutrality and commerce during European wartime. -
Gibbons vs Ogden
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) vastly expanded the powers of Congress through a single clause in the Constitution: the Commerce Clause of Article I, Section 8. Chief Justice John Marshall ruled for Gibbons, holding that New York's exclusive grant to Ogden violated the federal licensing act of 1793. In reaching its decision, the Court interpreted the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution for the first time. -
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John Quincy Adams presidency
An event that happened during his time is that two other former founding fathers died. His greatest achievement in my opinion is that Adams proclaims all American ports closed to trade with British colonies, suspending disagreements from an era of protracted contention with the British over tariffs, navigation and duties. Adams's declaration embodies his response to a rising Continental cartel of exclusive trading relationships. -
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Andrew Jackson's presidency
An event that happened during his time is that the French government agrees to a treaty settling spoliation claims by the United States dating back to the Napoleonic Wars. France agrees to pay $5 million but initially declines to make the payment. When U.S. representatives warn the French of American naval superiority, monies flow from French to U.S. coffers, beginning in 1836. And in my opinion his greatest achievement was him signing the Indian removal act. -
Trail of Tears
The Cherokee, like other tribes and nations, were told to leave. The US government gave them land in Oklahoma. The Cherokee refused to leave. They had no desire to live in Oklahoma. They wanted to live in the land of their ancestors, where they had always lived. The Cherokee took their case to the US Supreme Court. And they won! The Supreme Court said the Cherokee were right. But they were still forced to move along a trail of tears. The president at this time was President Andrew Jackson -
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Abolitionist Movement
The Abolitionist movement in the United States of America was an effort to end slavery in a nation that valued personal freedom and believed "all men are created equal." Over time, abolitionists grew more strident in their demands, and slave owners entrenched in response, fueling regional divisiveness that ultimately led to the American Civil War. Some of the leaders included John Quincy Adams Richard Allen and Henry “Box” Brown. There were more but it would take a while to list them all. -
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
In 1831 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 some sixty white men, women, and children on the night of August 21. Turner and 16 of his conspirators were captured and executed, but the incident continued to haunt Southern whites. Blacks were randomly killed all over Southhampton County; many were beheaded. -
The Toledo War
The Toledo War was a war between Michigan and Ohio over a small piece of land they both wanted. Nobody died, or got hurt. It ended because Michigan got a new leader and he gave them the land. (Couldn't find an exact date on this one.) -
Arkansas admitted to union
Sam Walton founded his Wal-Mart stores in Bentonville. -
Michigan admitted to union
Although Michigan is often called the "Wolverine State" there are no longer any wolverines in Michigan. Also I was born here and still live here so by default it makes it "best state." -
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Martin Van Buren's presidency
A big event that happened during his timespan was the Aroostook war begins and ends. His greatest achievement in my option him Independent Treasury Act. By signing the Independent Treasury Act, Van Buren “divorces” the federal Treasury Department from its relationship with all banks. His action stems from the controversy surrounding the Deposit Act of 1836. The Whigs will repeal the Independent Treasury Act in 1841; it will be restored in 1846. July 04, 1840. -
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William Harrison's presidency.
No big event really happens because he died very quickly after he became elected. His greatest moment was the day he died of pneumonia, he had only been elected for a mouth. -
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John Tyler's presidency
His greatest achievement was that he signed the Webster-Ashburton Treaty. A big event that happened while he was president is all the signing and documents going on -
Florida admitted to union
Florida is not the southernmost state in the United States. Hawaii is farther south -
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James K. Polk's presidency
A big event going on during his time is that the United States were declaring war on Mexico, he also signed the document to make this happen. He defeats the Mexicans and is ruled a hero. That was his greatest achievement. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was the belief by Anglo-Saxon Americans that it was the destiny, or the mission, of the United States to expand across North America and impart idealism in institutions that were capable of self-government. -
Texas admitted to union
Texas is the only state to have the flags of 6 different nations fly over it. They are: Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, Confederate States, and the United States. It also looks kinda like a hat on the map. That's really funny to me. -
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Mexican-American War
No exact dates sorry.: The Mexican-American war was caused by the unresolved border dispute between Texas and Mexico after the United States had annexed Texas. There were several major battles in it; one of the most famous was The Alamo.The American Army won almost all the battles in this war and it ended in 1848 with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. After all the battle and warfare, Mexico sold more than half of its territory to the United States as a result. -
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Sojourner Truth
He birth date was never recorded.In Sojourner Truth’s speech that she gave to the Women’s Convention of 1851, she speaks on the inequalities that women and blacks faced at that time in America. I will attempt to analyze the way she uses rhetorical strategies in order to achieve a successful and powerful delivery of her message. In this analysis, I will look at the way Sojourner uses personal experiences to get an emotional response from her audience, connecting with them as women. -
Iowa admitted to union
Strawberry Point is the home of the world's largest strawberry. -
Wisconsin admitted to union
Devil's Lake was established in 1911. The facility has become one of Wisconsin's oldest and most famous state parks. It leads the state parks in attendance. -
Seneca Falls Resolution
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention.[1] It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman".[2] 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 Worceste -
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Seneca Falls Convention
The American women's rights movement began with a meeting of reformers in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. Out of that first convention came a historic document, the 'Declaration of Sentiments,' which demanded equal social status and legal rights for women, including the right to vote. -
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Zachary Taylor's presidency
His greatest achievement was being very popular and being a hero of the Mexican-American War. An event that was going on during his presidency was slavery becoming very controversial and was starting to become and issue. He didn't do anything important to resolve this issue. -
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman was a runaway slave from Maryland who became known as the "Moses of her people." Over the course of 10 years, and at great personal risk, she led hundreds of slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad, a secret network of safe houses where runaway slaves could stay on their journey north to freedom. She later became a leader in the abolitionist movement, and during the Civil War she was a spy with for the federal forces in South Carolina as well as a nurse. -
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Millard Fillmore's presidency
His greatest achievement was that he signed into law the Fugitive Slave Act, which enacted strict provisions for returning runaway slaves to their owners. What was going on during his time is that slaves and slave owners were becoming a real big issue but he still did little to help with all the controversy. -
California admitted to union
An animal called the riparian brush rabbit calls Caswell Memorial State Park (near Manteca) its home. Endemic only to the state's park system, the critter lives in approximately 255 acres stretching along the area's once-vast hardwood forest. -
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Franklin Pierce's presidency
His greatest moment was him signing the Gadsden Purchase Treaty. When the Gadsden Purchase Treaty was signed, it gave the United States approximately 45,000 square miles of northern Mexico. And the Bleeding Kansas war was going on. It was about slavery and wether it was wrong or right -
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James Buchanan's presidency
An event that took place was the Mountain Meadow Massacre. Where 140 people died. He still never settled the issue of slavery when it was his time either. So issue still went on and on until the very next president was elected. -
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. Scott's master maintained that no pure-blooded Negro of African descent. -
Minnesota admitted to union
Minnesotan baseball commentator Halsey Hal was the first to say 'Holy Cow' during a baseball broadcast. -
Oregon admitted to union
Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States and is formed in the remains of an ancient volcano. Also Oregon's flag has two sides each with different pictures on it. -
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. John Brown and his cohorts marched into an unsuspecting Harper's Ferry and seized the federal complex with little resistance. It consisted of an armory, arsenal, and engine house. They were tried and they lost. -
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Abraham Lincoln's presidency.
The cilvil war began during his time. It was a huge war meant to settle the issue of slavery once and for all. Lincoln settles this war and issue once and for all and tries to put an end to slavery once and for all. When the war is won slaves are no longer common and acceptable. All thanks to Lincoln. -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women's rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) gave this powerful speech in 1868 at the Women's Suffrage Convention in Washington, D.C. Twenty years earlier, at Seneca Falls, New York, she had helped to launch the women's rights movement in America.
Stanton worked tirelessly for more than a half-century to obtain voting rights for American women and also questioned the social and political norms of her day which excluded women. -
Transcontinental Treaty (1819)
Facing the grim fact that he must negotiate with the United States or possibly lose Florida without any compensation, Spanish foreign minister Onis signed a treaty with Secretary of State John Quincy Adams. Similar to the Louisiana Purchase statutes, the United States agreed to pay its citizens’ claims against Spain up to $5 Million. The treaty drew a definite border between Spanish land and the Louisiana Territory.
