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Delaware
Has a state star called the Delaware Diamond -
Pennsylvania
This state was named to honor Admiral William Penn and his son, William Penn, Pennsylvania's founder. -
New Jersey
The state dinosaur is the Hadrosaurus Foulkii which is a duckbilled, plant eater that lived between 70 to 100 million years ago -
Georgia
Is nicknamed the Peach State -
Connecticut
Tourism is a major industry in Connecticut -
Massachusetts
The Bay State or the Old Bay State is Massachusetts’s most common nickname. Its also occasionally referred to as the Old Colony State, the Puritan State, and the Baked Bean State. -
Maryland
Maryland was named to honor the Queen consort Henrietta Maria, the wife of Britain's King Charles I -
South Carolina
South Carolina's state beverage is milk -
New Hampshire
New Hampshire was named for Hampshire, England, by Captain John Mason -
Virginia
The production of US Navy War Ships is one of the major industries in Virginia -
New York
4 US Presidents were born in New York -
North Carolina
The Gray squirrel is North Carolina's state mammal -
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George Washington
He was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War -
Rhode Island
Rhode Island was named after its red clay by the Dutch explorer, Adriaen Block -
Whiskey Rebellion
Whiskey tax was the first thing that the newly formed government had taxed on. It was intended to help pay off the national debt. People had used violence so they wouldn't have to pay to the tax collectors. The Whiskey Rebellion demonstrated that the new national government had the will and the ability to suppress violent resistance to its laws. -
Vermont
The name Vermont comes from the French words,"Mont Vert" -
Kentucky
Horse-raising is a major industry in Kentucky -
Horrace Mann
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. -
Washingtons Farewell Address
The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number of those out of whom -
Tennessee
Music is one of Tennessee's major industries -
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John Adams
John Adams was the first Vice President of the United States for George Washington and the second US President. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
Adams in 1798, the Alien and Sedition Acts consisted of four laws passed by the Federalist-controlled Congress as America prepared for war with France. Authorized the president to imprison or deport aliens considered "dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States" and restricted speech critical of the government. -
Louisiana Purchase
530,000,000 acrers of land, costs 15 million dollars. This situation was threatened by Napoleon Bonaparte’s plans to revive the French empire in the New World. -
Marbury v Madison
Election of 1800, the newly organized Democratic-Republican party of Thomas Jefferson defeated the Federalist party. Players were John Adams, Marbury, madison, and Jefferson. -
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Thomas Jefferson
He was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence -
Chief Justice John Marshall
John Marshall may have been the most instrumental person in shaping the powers of the US Supreme Court. 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. Big cases include, Marbury v Madison, Fletcher v Peck, McCulloch v Maryland, Cohen v Virgina, Gibbon v Ogden, Dartmouth college v Woodward. -
Ohio
7 presidents were born in Ohio -
Lewis and Clark
George Shannon, Lewis, Clark, John Shields, Sacagawea, her husband, and her child travel up the Missouri River in 1804. It was difficult and exhausting due to heat. They averaged 10-15 miles per day. -
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James Madison
He made a major contribution to the ratification of the Constitution by writing The Federalist Papers, along with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay. -
Louisiana
Louisiana's state reptile is the alligator -
War of 1812
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. -
Indiana
Indiana is a word that refers to the local indians -
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James Monroe
". . . the American continents by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European Power." Stated James Monrow. 20 years after Monroe died in 1831, this became known as the Monroe Doctrine. -
Mississippi
Mississippi's nickname is the Magnolia State -
Illinois
Illinois comes from the word Illini, a confederation of the Cahokia, Kaskaskia, Michigamea, Moingwena, Peoria and Tamaroa Indian tribes. -
McCullouch v Maryland
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 and proper clause) while at the same time denying Maryland the right to tax the bank’s notes. -
Dartmouth College v Woodward
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, and thus was safe from being changed or nullified by the states. -
Transcontinental Treaty
North American claims along a line from the southeastern corner of what is now Louisiana, north and west to what is now Wyoming, thence west along the latitude 42° N to the Pacific. Thus, Spain ceded Florida and renounced the Oregon Country in exchange for recognition of Spanish sovereignty over Texas. -
Alabama
Alabama's state fossil is a Basilosaurus cetoides, which is an extinct whale. -
Missouri Compromise
Federal statute in the United States 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. -
Maine
Maine refers to the mainland. -
Gibbons v Ogden
State law (New York) gave to indivual a the exclusive right to operate steamboats on waters within state jurisdiction. Las like this one were duplicated elsewhere which led to friction as some states would require foreign or out of states boats to pay substantial fees for navigation privileges. -
Missouri
Missouri was named for an Algonquian Indian word that means "river of the big canoes." -
Monroe Doctrine
Buried in a routine annual message delivered to Congress by President James Monroe in December 1823, the doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs. -
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John Quincy Adams
He proposed that the Federal Government bring the states together with a network of highways and canals using funds from the sale of public lands. In 1828, he broke ground for the 185-mile C & 0 Canal. -
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Andrew Jackson
He was a major general in 1812 and was a national hero when he defeated the British in New Orleans. -
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. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831. rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the American South. -
William Lloyd Garrison
He was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, which he founded in 1831 and published in Massachusetts until slavery was abolished by Constitutional amendment after the American Civil War. -
Arkansas
Arkansas is from the Quapaw (Sioux) word "acansa," which means "downstream place" or "south wind." -
Michigan
Michigan is from an Algonquian Chippewa Indian word "meicigama" that means "big sea wate" (referring to the Great Lakes). -
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Martin Van Buren
In 1836 he issued a Specie Circular that caused hundreds of banks and businesses to fail in 1837. -
Trail of Tears
Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, caused the Cherokee nation to be forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. -
Manifest Destiny
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. -
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[4] and incisive antislavery writing. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the Seneca Falls Convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized women's rights and women's suffrage movements in the United States. -
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William Henry Harrison
He caught a cold that developed into pneumonia and about a month after being elected, died on April 4, 1841, he died. He was the first president to die in office. -
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John Tyler
After president Harrison died in office, John Tyler was elected to take over and serve the remainder of his presidential term -
Florida
Florida was first seen by the Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon. He then named it "Pascua de Florida," meaning "Feast of Flowers" and claimed it for Spain -
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James Knox Polk
Pushed to try and get California as a state and offered up to $20,000,000 to Mexico for it -
Texas
The Caddo Indians of eastern Texas called their group of tribes the "Tejas," meaning "those who are friends". -
Iowa
The name Iowa comes from Ioway, the French word for the Bah-kho-je Indian tribe that lived in the area. -
Mexican-American War
stemming from the United States’ annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande. 500,000 square miles westward from the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean. -
Wisconsin
Wisconsin is from an Indian word, but the origin is uncertain. It is perhaps an Algonquian Indian word that means "long river," a Chippewa/Ojibwa/Anishinabe word, "Ouisconsin," that means "grassy place," or "gathering of the waters." -
Susan B. 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. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. -
Seneca Falls Resolution
Seneca Falls solved many things, but mostly national women's rights conventions were held annually, providing an important focus for the growing women's suffrage movement. In 1920 finally the 19th Ammendment came into play for women. They could vote. -
Seneca Falls Convention
woman’s rights convention–the first ever held in the United States–convenes with almost 200 women in attendance. The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two abolitionists who met at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. On the second day of the convention, men were invited to intend–and some 40 did. the 19th Amendment was adopted in 1920, granting American women the constitutionally protected right to vote. -
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Zachary Taylor
Was a major general in the army -
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Millard Fillmore
Last Whig president that was not representing either the republicans nor the democrats -
California
The name California comes from a mythical Spanish island ruled by a queen called Califia that was featured in a Spanish romance ("Las Sergas de Esplandian") written by Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo in 1510. The Spanish explorers originally thought that California was an island. -
Sojourner Truth
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. Sojourner Truth was named Isabella ("Bell") Baumfree when she was born. 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 Convent -
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Franklin Pierce
Signed the Kansas Nebraska act ending in a bloody war over Kansas slavery -
Dred Scott v Sandford
African Americans that were slaved or free were not to be considered an American citizen and could not sue. In 1846, after laboring and saving for years, the Scotts sought to buy their freedom from Sanford, but she refused. Dred Scott then sued Sanford in a state court, arguing that he was legally free because he and his family had lived in a territory where slavery was banned. In 1850, the state court finally declared Scott free. -
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James Buchanan
Served immediately prior to the Civil War -
Minnesota
Minnesota is from a Dakota Sioux Indian word that means "cloudy water" or "sky water" and refers to local rivers. -
Oregon
The origin is unknown. It may have come from the French word Ouragan (which means Hurricane) and was a former name of the Columbia River. -
John Brown and The Armed Resistance
He was upset because he thought that armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. In early 1858, he had succeeded in enlisting a small "army" of insurrection whose mission was to foment rebellio among the 21 slaves. -
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Abraham Lincoln
Was assassinated on Good Friday, April 14, 1865 at Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth -
Harriet Tubman and The Underground Railroad
The underground railroad was neither underground nor a railroad. It got its name because it's activites had to be carried out in secret, using secrets or darkness or disguise, and because railway terms were used by those involved with system to describe how it worked. Key people. Harriet Tubman, william still, David rubles, Calvin Fairbanks, Josiah Henson, Erastus Hussein. Many of the slaves escaped.
