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Delaware
Delaware was the first state to join the Union -
Pennsylvania
The Deceleration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia in 1776. -
New Jersey
New Jersey has 21 counties. Everyone of these counties are classified as metropolitan areas. -
Georgia
Athens is the location of the first university chartered and supported by state funds. -
Connecticut
PEZ candy is made in Orange, a city in Connecticut. -
Massachusetts
Boston had built the first subway in the USA -
Maryland
16 of 23 counties border on tidal water. The combined length including islands is 4,431 miles. -
South Carolina
The salamander was given the honor of official state amphibian. The Upper Whitewater Falls is the highest cascade in eastern America; it descends for nearly 411 feet. -
New Hampshire
New Hampshire's present constitution was adopted in 1784; it is the second oldest in the country. The first free public library in the United States was established at Peterborough in 1833. -
Virginia
Jamestown was the first English settlement in the U.S. It was also the first capital of Virginia. Seven Presidents are buried in Virginia: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Tyler, Taft and Kennedy. -
New York
The "New York Post" established in 1803 by Alexander Hamilton is the oldest running newspaper in the United States. New York was the first state to require license plates on cars. -
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George Washignton
George had served for 2 terms and declined a third term. His greatest accomplishment was being the 1st president of the United States. The French Revolution led to a major war between France and England while he was president. He insisted on a neutral course. -
North Carolina
North Carolina was the first state in the nation to establish a state museum of art. 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
Rhode Island was the last of the original thirteen colonies to become a state. Rhode Island has no county government. It is divided into 39 municipalities each having its own form of local government. -
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. The whiskey excise remained difficult to collect, however. The events contributed to the formation of political parties in the United States, a process -
Vermont
Vermont's largest employer isn't Ben and Jerry's, it's IBM. With a population of fewer than nine thousand people, Montpelier, Vermont is the smallest state capital in the U.S. -
Kentucky
The first American performance of a Beethoven symphony was in Lexington in 1817. Cumberland is the only waterfall in the world to regularly display a Moonbow. It is located just southwest of Corbin. -
Horace 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. The Mann contribution, sta -
Washington’s 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
The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis is at the Lorraine Motel where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was slain in 1968. The museum preserves the motel and tells the history of the American Civil Rights Movement. Coca-Cola was first bottle in 1899 at a plant on Patten Parkway in downtown Chattanooga after two local attorneys purchased the bottling rights to the drink for $l.00. -
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John Adams
He had served for 4 years. He had served as Vice President for George Washington. He lost the next election to Jefferson by only a few votes. His greatest accomplishment was that he sent 3 commissioners to France, but France refused to negotiate. An event that happened while he was president was the "X.Y.Z fever" this is when the Frenchman were referred to as the X, Y and Z. These Frenchman were the people he sent to France. -
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. These laws were designed. laws were designed to silence and weaken the Democratic-Republican Part -
Louisana 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. -
Marybury 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. Marshall's decision Marbury was denied his commission -- which presumably pleased President Jefferson -
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson had written the Declaration of Independence at age 33. One of Jefferson's big accomplishments was that he reduced the national debt by a third. He had two terms in office. He had purchased the Louisiana territory and doubled the size. -
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
The first ambulance service was established in Cincinnati in 1865. Ohio's state flag is a pennant design. It is the only state flag of that design in the United States. -
Lewis and Clark expedition
George Shannon, Lewis, Clark, John Shields, Sacagawea, her husband, her child, Travel up the Missouri River in 1804 was difficult and exhausting due to heat. They averaged 10-15 miles per day. -
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James Madison
James had made a major contribution to ratifying the constitution. He wrote with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay. While he was in office he prohibited trade with Britian and France. Then congress had authorized trade with both. He led the nation into the war of 1812. -
Louisiana
The world famous "Mardi Gras" is celebrated in New Orleans. Mardi Gras is an ancient custom that originated in southern Europe. It celebrates food and fun just before the 40 days of Lent: a Catholic time of prayer and sacrifice. Saint Joseph's Cemetery, the only known United States cemetery facing north-south is in Rayne. bayou: \BUY-you\ n. a French name for slow-moving "river" -
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 its territory. -
Indiana
Indiana's shoreline with Lake Michigan is only 40 miles long, but Indiana is still considered a Great Lakes State. Crawfordsville is the home of the only known working rotary jail in the United States. The jail with its rotating cellblock was built in 1882 and served as the Montgomery County jail until 1972. It is now a museum. -
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James Monroe
The last president of the Founding Father's. In 1829 the economic depression increased when Missouri Territory slave state failed. James had bought Florida from Spain while he was in office. -
Mississippi
The rarest of North American cranes lives in Mississippi in the grassy savannas of Jackson County. The Mississippi Sandhill Crane stands about 44 inches tall and has an eight-foot wingspan. The International Checkers Hall of Fame is in Petal. -
Illinois
Chicago is home to the Chicago Water Tower and Pumping Station, the only buildings to survive the Great Chicago Fire. Des Plaines is home to the first McDonald's. -
Alabama
Alabama workers built the first rocket to put humans on the moon. Schools established in Mobile include Washington Academy (founded in 1811) and Huntsville Green Academy (founded in 1812). -
Tanscontinental 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. -
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. -
Missouri Compromise
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
Acadia National Park is the second most visited national park in the United States. Freeport is the home to the L.L. Bean Company. -
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 privilege -
Missouri
The tallest man in documented medical history was Robert Pershing Wadlow from St. Louis. He was 8 feet, 11.1 inches tall. Jefferson City, Missouri, the state's capital, was named for Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States. -
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. U.S. Is out of European affairs. EUROPE STAY OUT! -
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John Quincy Adams
He had supported educational improvements like road and canal building, national universities, and a national bank. Was not a effective president. -
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. She had died in battle creek Michigan. Ain't I a women speech was in 1851, "Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter." -
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Andrew Jackson
The first and only president to pay off the entire national debt, although the national debt then increased two years later. -
abolitionst 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" -
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
William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society the following year. -
Arkansas
The state contains six national park sites, two-and-a half million acres of national forests, seven national scenic byways, three state scenic byways, and 50 state parks. Milk is the official state beverage. It was designated in 1985. -
Michigan
Four flags have flown over Michigan - French, English, Spanish and United States. The nation's first regularly scheduled air passage service began operation between Grand Rapids and Detroit in 1926. Michigan is the only place in the world with a floating post office. The J.W. Westcott II is the only boat in the world that delivers mail to ships while they are still underway. They have been operating for 125 years. -
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Martin Van Buren
He was a key organizer of the Jacksonian Democratic Party. Advocated lower tariffs and free trade to the pleasure of the south. Denied Texas the right to be a part of the United States. -
Trail of Tears
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. -
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. -
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William Henry Harrison
He was the first president to die in office. Harrison had killed Tecumseh an Indian force and that had made all native Indians from the Northwest scatter. -
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John Tyler
He vetoed Whig bills to recreate a national bank on the grounds that states have rights to refuse such an institution. Took office after William Henry Harrison had dies 1 month into term. The Whig's had expelled Tyler from the party. -
Florida
A museum in Sanibel owns 2 million shells and claims to be the world's only museum devoted solely to mollusks. Miami Beach pharmacist Benjamin Green invented the first suntan cream in 1944. He accomplished this development by cooking cocoa butter in a granite coffee pot on his wife's stove. Key West has the highest average temperature in the United States. -
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James K. Polk
Referred as the "Dark horse" pres. He bought California and New Mexico from Mexico. Achieved majority of his democratic goals. Reduction on tariff, independent treasury, curtailing the use of federal funds. He had oversaw opening of US Naval Academy. -
Texas
Texas is popularly known as The Lone Star State. The worst natural disaster in United States history was caused by a hurricane that hit Galveston in 1900. Over 8000 deaths were recorded. The Flagship Hotel on Seawall Boulevard in Galveston is the only hotel in North America built entirely over the water. -
Iowa
A bronze life-sized sculpture of a Norwegian immigrant family (circa 1860) is located on a six acre restored prairie site located at the east entry to Lake Mills on Highway 105. Iowa is the only state name that starts with two vowels. Iowa is the only state whose east and west borders are 100% formed by water. Missouri and Mississippi rivers. -
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
The original Barbie is from Willows. Barbie's full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts. The falls in Niagara has the same geological feature as Niagara Falls, New York. Two Rivers is the home of the ice cream sundae. -
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. -
Seneca Falls Reolution.
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
General and national hero of US army. Encouraged New Mexico and California to bypass territorial stage seeking statehood and ban slavery from state constitution. Signed a treaty saying that any Central American Canal linking Atlantic to the Pacific was both British and American. -
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Millard Fillmore
An anti-slavery moderate, he opposed Abolitionist demands to exclude slavery from the territory gained in Mexican war. Supported the compromise in 1850 instead. Out in the running for re-election but it was passed over by the Whigs. Opposed of the French attempts to annex Hawaii. -
California
Death Valley is recognized as the hottest, driest place in the United States. It isn't uncommon for the summer temperatures to reach more than 115 degrees. The highest and lowest points in the continental United States are within 100 miles of one another. Mount Whitney measures 14,495 feet and Bad Water in Death Valley is 282 feet below sea level. California produces more than 17 million gallons of wine each year. -
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Franklin Pierce
Signed the Kansas-Nebraska act in 1854, thus saying it allowed the new territory of Kansas to decide its own stance on slavery. Deeply unpopular in the North and the Democratic Party dropped his next nomination. Bought mor land from Mexico. -
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. However, Scott's wages had -
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James Buchanan
Andrew Jackson had appointed to become Minister of Russia. Last pre-civil president. An economic depression occurred but Buchanan had not done anything to help them. He decided to end troubles with Kansas by urging their admission as a slave state. -
Minnesota
Minnesota has 90,000 miles of shoreline, more than California, Florida and Hawaii combined. The first Intercollegiate Basketball game was played in Minnesota on February 9,1895. Polaris Industries of Roseau invented the snowmobile. -
Oregon
The nation's most photographed lighthouse is the Heceta Head Lighthouse located in Lane County. The Columbia River forms most of the northern border between Oregon and Washington. The Snake River forms over half of the eastern boundary with Idaho. The Oregon Trail is the longest of the overland routes used in the westward expansion of the United States. -
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
When the Confederet batteries fired on Fort Sumter and forced it to surrender, he had called out and gotten 75,000 volunteers. Four slave states joined the Confederacy, four stayed in the Union. He had made all slaves free. On Good Friday he was assassinated by John Wilkes booth. -
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
1844-1877
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. -
Frederic Douglas
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. A small part of his "What to a Slave is the 4th of July" speech. The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slave plantation, from which I escaped, is considerable -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
She helped organize the world's first women's rights convention in 1848, and formed the national women's loyal league with Susan B Anthony in 1863. Seven years later, they established the National Woman Suffrage Association. Her efforts helped bring about the eventual passage of the 19th amendment, which gave all citizens the right to vote.
