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Georgia
The late John F. Kennedy, Jr. and his future wife stopped in Kingsland on the way to their marriage on Cumberland Island. -
Connecticut
The first telephone book ever issued contained only fifty names. The New Haven District Telephone Company published it in New Haven in February 1878. -
Delaware
Delaware was the first state to ratify the United States constitution. It did so on December 7, 1787. -
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania is the first state of the fifty United States to list their web site URL on a license plate. -
New Jersey
New Jersey has the highest population density in the U.S. An average 1,030 people per sq. mi., which is 13 times the national average. -
Massachusetts
Boston built the first subway system in the United States in 1897. -
Maryland
In 1830 the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company built the first railroad station in Baltimore. -
South Carolina
South Carolina entered the Union on May 23, 1788 and became the 8th state -
New Hampshire
The first potato planted in the United States was at Londonderry Common Field in 1719. -
Virginia
Virginia was named for England's "Virgin Queen," Elizabeth I. -
New York
The first American chess tournament was held in New York in 1843. -
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George Washington
Vice President: John Adams | George Washington was best known for leading the Continental Army to victory (October 17, 1781) -
North Carolina
The Outer Banks of NC hosts some of the most beautiful beaches in the country. -
Rhode Island
Rhode Island was the last of the original thirteen colonies to become a state. -
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Whiskey Rebellion
A tax protest in the United States, the "whiskey tax" was the first tax on a domestic product by the government | this act showed the government that the Articles of Confederation were too weak which led us to creating the constitution -
Vermont
Vermont was the first state admitted to the Union after the ratification of the Constitution. -
Kentucky
The first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant owned and operated by Colonel Sanders is located in Corbin. -
Tennessee
There are more horses per capita in Shelby County than any other county in the United States. -
Washington’s Farewell Address
He decided to step down from president after 2 terms because he didn't want our government to end like the British government | He told us to stay away from permanent alliances with foreign nations -
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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 | Ain't I a woman?: June 21, 1853 | she had one of the largest funerals held in Battle Creek, MI -
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John Adams
Vice President: Thomas Jefferson | Severed on the First Continental Congress and helped draft the Declaration of Independence (1774) also was the first Vice President -
Alien and Sedition Acts
Four bills that were passed by the federalists in the fifth United States Congress and signed into law by John Adams in 1798. These bills allowed the president to imprison or deport aliens considered dangerous to safety of the United States. It also make it harder for new immigrants to vote. -
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John Brown and the armed resistance
John Brown was a radical abolitionist whose fervent hatred of slavery led him to seize the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry in October 1859. It is widely believed his intention was to arm slaves for a rebellion, though he denied that. Hanged for treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, Brown quickly became a martyr among those seeking to end slavery in America. -
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Cheif Justice John Marshall
Marbury v. Madison (1803), Fletcher v. Peck (1810), Mchulloch v. Maryland (1818), Cohens v. Virginia (1821), Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) | he believed in the 3 branches of government and making everything equal -
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Thomas Jefferson
Vice Presidents: Aaron Burr (1801-1805), George Clinton (1805-1809) | Was an American Founding Father and was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence -
Marbury v. Madison
Marbury- argued that he was entitled to his commission that the Judical act gave them | Madison- was sued by Marbury and asked suprime court of the United states to issue a write of mandamus | John Marshall | Marbury placed it squarely at the heart of U.S. Governance -
Louisiana Purchase
With the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the United States purchased approximately 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France, thereby doubling the size of the young republic. What was known as Louisiana Territory stretched from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west and from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to the Canadian border in the north. Considered one of the most important achivements. -
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 in 1803, consisting of a select group of U.S. Army volunteers under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend Second Lieutenant William Clark. -
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William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer | In 1831, Garrison returned to New England, where he co-founded a weekly anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator, with his friend Isaac Knapp -
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James Maddison
Vice Presidents: George Clinton (1809-1812), Eldridge Gerry (1813-1814) | Known as "Father of the Constitution" also was the last Founding Father to serve as president. -
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War of 1812
The U.S. declared war against the British | The ratification of the Treaty of Ghent on February 17, 1815, ended the war but left many of the most contentious questions unresolved. Nonetheless, many in the United States celebrated the War of 1812 as a “second war of independence,” beginning an era of partisan agreement and national pride. -
Louisiana
The Battle of New Orleans, which made Andrew Jackson a national hero, was fought two weeks after the War of 1812 had ended and more than a month before the news of the war's end had reached Louisiana. -
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement -
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
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 | Chief Justice John Marshall, Bushrod Washington, Will Johnson, Brockholst Livingston, and Joseph Story | Dartmouth College 5 Woodward 1 -
Indiana
The movie "Hard Rain" was filmed in Huntingburg. -
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James Monroe
Vice President: Daniel D. Tompkins | He established the aggressive foreign policy stand known as the Monroe Doctrine also was sent to France to negotiate the Lousiana Purchase -
Mississippi
Borden's Condensed Milk was first canned in Liberty. -
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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. -
Illinois
The world's first Skyscraper was built in Chicago, 1885. -
McCullouch v. Maryland
Maryland attempted to impede the operatuon of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a tax on all notes of banks not chartered by Maryland | Chief Justice John Marshall, Bushrod Washington, Will Johnson, Brockholst Livingston, Thomas Todd, Gabriel Duvall, and Joseph Story | 7 McCullouch 0 Maryland -
Transcontinental Treaty (1819)
accord between the United States and Spain that divided their 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 workers built the first rocket to put humans on the moon. -
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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. 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's earliest inhabitants were descendants of Ice Age hunters. -
Missouri
The first successful parachute jump to be made from a moving airplane was made by Captain Berry at St. Louis, in 1912. -
Monroe Doctrine
President James Monroe | the doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs -
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Gibbons v. Ogden
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 to Aaron Ogden. New York courts consistently upheld the state monopoly | Chief Justice John Marshall, Bushrod Washington, Will Johnson, Thomas Todd, Gabriel Duvall, and Joseph Story -
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John Quincy Adams
Vice President: John C. Calhoun | He played a big role in determining the president's foreign policy such as the Monroe Doctrine -
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Andrew Jackson
Vice President: John C. Calhoun (1829-1832), Martin Van Buren (1833-1837) | He became a national war hero after defeating the British in New Orleans during the war of 1812 -
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Abolitionist Movement
Was an attempt to abolish slavery | William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whitter, Harriet Beecher Stowe | "I will be heard" movement -
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion (also known as the Southampton Insurrection) was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the American South -
Horace Mann's Campaign for Free Compulsory Public Education
He/They wanted education to be free for all students -
Arkansas
North Little Rock offers one of the nation's largest municipal parks. -
Michigan
Detroit is known as the car capital of the world. -
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Martin Van Buren
Vice President: Richard Mentor Johnson | His policies were very unpopular and failed to win 2nd term -
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Trail of Tears
In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma -
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William Harrison
Vice President: John Tyler | He became famous as the victor in the battle of Tippecanoe (November 7, 1811) while serving as the first governor of Indiana -
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John Tyler
Vice President: ??? | Was elected as the tenth president after his running mate's death in April 1841 -
Florida
Saint Augustine is the oldest European settlement in North America. -
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James K. Polk
Vice President: George M. Dallas | While he was president America's territory grew greatly he also lead the nation in the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) -
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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. This attitude helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with Mexico -
Texas
Texas is popularly known as The Lone Star State. -
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Mexican-American War
The Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War, the U.S.–Mexican War or the Invasion of Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States and the Centralist Republic of Mexico from 1846 to 1848 | The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo specified the major consequence of the war: the forced Mexican Cession of the territories of Alta California and New Mexico to the United States in exchange for $15 million -
Iowa
Strawberry Point is the home of the world's largest strawberry -
Wisconsin
The state is nicknamed the Badger State. -
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Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman" | Female Quakers local to the area organized the meeting along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was not a Quaker -
Seneca Falls Resolution
In the fall of 1841, Elizabeth Cady Stanton gave her first public speech, on the subject of the Temperance movement, in front of 100 women in Seneca Falls. She wrote to her friend Elizabeth J. Neal that she moved both the audience and herself to tears, saying "I infused into my speech an Homeopathic dose of woman's rights, as I take good care to do in many private conversations." -
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Zachary Taylor
Vice President: Millard Fillmore | Known as a national war hero for his battles in the Mexican War -
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Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad - Meet Amazing Americans. America's Library - Library of Congress. After Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery, she returned to slave-holding states many times to help other slaves escape. She led them safely to the northern free states and to Canada. -
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Millard Fillmore
Vice President: ??? | Began his political career in the Anti-Masonic party but switched to the Whig Party through his association with Henry Clay -
California
More turkeys are raised in California than in any other state in the United States. -
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Dred Scott v. Sandford
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 and the descendant of slaves could be a citizen in the sense of Article III of the Constitution | Roger B. Taney, James M. Wayne, John Catron, Peter V. Daniel, Samuel Nelson, Robert C. Grier, John A. Campbell | Dred Scott 7 Sandford 2 -
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Franklin Pierce
Vice President: William R. King | Served in the Mexican-American War and is something of a surprise elected president -
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James Buchanan
Vice President: John C. Breckinridge | Known for serving as president during the run-up to the Civil War also Buchanan's inability to halt the southern states' drive toward secession has led most historians to consider his presidency a failure. -
Minnesota
Minnesotan baseball commentator Halsey Hal was the first to say 'Holy Cow' during a baseball broadcast. -
Oregon
Oregon has more ghost towns than any other state. -
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Abraham Lincoln
Vice Presidents: Hannibal Hamlin (1861-1865), Andrew Jackson (1865) | Known for the Gettysburg Address, abolishing slavery and being one of the four presidents who have been assassinated.
