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New Jersey
Fun Facts: 1.) New Jersey has the most diners in the world and is somtimes referred to as the diner capital of the world.
2.) 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. -
Georgia
Fun Facts: 1.) Geogia is the largest state east of the Missippi River.
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Connecticut
Fun Facts: Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment. (Prohibition). -
Massachusetts
Fun Facts: 1.) Massachusetts holds the two largest cities in New England, Boston, the largest, and Worcester.
2.) John Adams and John Quincy Adams are buried in the crypt at the United First Parish Church in Quincy. -
Maryland
Fun Fact: 1.) Maryland forests cover approximately 2.7 million acres, or 43% of the states land surface. Oak and hickory are the dominant hardwood or deciduous forest type, making up 60% of forested areas. Loblolly pine is the most prevalent softwood and is the predominant forest wood on the Eastern Shore. -
South Carolina
Fun Fact: 1.) The City of Myrtle Beach is in the center of the Grand Strand, a 60-mile crescent of beach on the South Carolina coast. In the last 25 years, Myrtle Beach has developed into the premier resort destination on the East Coast. -
New Hampshire
Fun Fact: 1.) On December 30, 1828, about 400 mill girls walked out of the Dover Cotton Factory enacting the first women's strike in the United States. The Dover mill girls were forced to give in when the mill owners immediately began advertising for replacement workers. -
Virginia
Fun Fact: 1.) Jamestown, the first of the original 13 Colonies was founded for the purpose of silk cultivation. Silk to be traded with the Court of King James. After blight fungus destroyed the mulberry trees (silkworm food), sericulturist planted tobacco as a cash crop. -
New York
Fun Fact: 1.) The "New York Post" established in 1803 by Alexander Hamilton is the oldest running newspaper in the United States. -
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George Washington
: Washington's biggest accomplishment was that he was our very 1st president. : Rhode Island ratifies the Constitution, becoming the last of the original thirteen states under the Articles of Confederation to join the newly formed Union. May 29, 1790 -
North Carolina
Fun Fact: 1.) The first English colony in America was located on Roanoke Island. Walter Raleigh founded it. The colony mysteriously vanished with no trace except for the word "Croatoan" scrawled on a nearby tree. -
Rhode Island
Fun Fact: 1.) Rhode Island was the last of the original thirteen colonies to become a state. -
Vermont
Fun Fact: 1.) Vermont was the first state admitted to the Union after the ratification of the Constitution. -
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Whiskey Rebellion
It was a tax protest when whiskey was taxed. -
Kentucky
Fun Fact: 1.) In 1774 Harrodstown (now Harrodsburg) was established as the first permanent settlement in the Kentucky region. It was named after James Harrod who led a team of area surveyors. -
Tennessee
Fun Fact: 1.) The state was an independent nation from 1836 to 1845. -
Washington’s Farewell Address
George Washington's Farewell Address is a letter written by the first American President, George Washington, to "The People of the United States of America". -
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John Adams
: Adams assisted Thomas Jefferson of the drafting of Decleration of independence. : When Adams became President, the war between the French and British was causing great difficulties for the United States on the high seas and intense partisanship among contending factions within the Nation. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
four bills that were passed by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress and signed into law by President John Adams -
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John Brown and the armed resistance
- Rumors spread that the border ruffians intended to attack the anti-slavery settlers on Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas; Brown and his family were among the abolitionists in this sharply divided area. -
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Thomas Jefferson
: Thomas Jefferson wrote the Decleration of independence. : The Miami Indians soundly defeat an American military force of 1400 men led by General Arthur St. Clair at the cost of 900 American lives. The Washington Administration had sent St. Clair to the Ohio country with the hope that his presence would clear the way for American settlers. November 04, 1791 -
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. -
Ohio
Fun Fact: 1.) Seven United States presidents were born in Ohio. They are: Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William H. Taft, and Warren G. Harding. -
Marbury v. Madison
The order granting the commission takes effect when the Executive’s constitutional power of appointment has been exercised, and the power has been exercised when the last act required from the person possessing the power has been performed. -
Louisiana Purchase
- 828,000 square miles) by the United States from France in 1803.
- $15 million.
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James Madison
: Made a major contribution to the ratification of the Constitution by writing The Federalist Papers. : Madison issues a proclamation authorizing occupation of West Florida, also claimed by Spain, as part of the Louisiana Purchase. October 27, 1810 -
Louisiana
Fun Fact: 1.) 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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War of 1812
- The War of 1812 was a military conflict, lasting for two-and-a-half years, between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- Results of the war between Britain and the United States involved no geographical changes,[1] and no major policy changes.
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Indiana
Fun Fact: 1.) Explorers Lewis and Clark set out from Fort Vincennes on their exploration of the Northwest Territory. -
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James Monroe
: Was the last president during the First Party System era of American politics and the last to be a Founding Father. : 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, -
Mississippi
Fun Fact: 1.) In 1871 Liberty became the first town in the United States to erect a Confederate monument. -
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
New Hampshire legislature attempted to change Dartmouth College -
Illinois
Fun Fact: 1.) Illinois was the first state to ratify the 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery. 1865. -
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Transcontinental Treaty (1819)
It fixed the western boundary of the Louisiana Purchase as beginning at the mouth of the Sabine River and running along its south and west bank to the thirty-second parallel and thence directly north to the Río Rojo (Red River). -
McCullouch v. Maryland
Supreme Court ruled that Congress had implied powers under the Necessary and Proper Clause of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution -
Alabama
Fun Fact: 1.) Alabama is the only state with all major natural resources needed to make iron and steel. It is also the largest supplier of cast-iron and steel pipe products. -
Missouri Compromise
First, Missouri would be admitted to the union as a slave state, but would be balanced by the admission of Maine, a free state, that had long wanted to be separated from Massachusetts. Second, slavery was to be excluded from all new states in the Louisiana Purchase north of the southern boundary of Missouri. -
Maine
Fun Fact: 1.) Maine contains 542,629 acres of state and national parks. -
Missouri
Fun Fact: 1.) Missouri's capitol city is Jerfferson City. -
Monroe Doctrine
- James Monroe
- Oligated to respect the Western Hemisphere as the United States' sphere of interest.
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John Quincy Adams
:Supported infrastructural and educational improvements in the shape of federal projects like road and canal building, a national university, and a national bank, but met with stiff opposition from supporters of Andrew Jackson in Congress. :Military standardization and integration of Union and state militias is a foremost concern during the Adams administration. In response to a proposal by the secretary of war to revamp military organization and seniority systems, a joint House and Senate. -
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Andrew Jackson
: His actions during the War of 1812—especially his overwhelming victory against British troops at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815—and the Creek War made him a national hero. : 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. -
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Nat Turner was the leader of a violent slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831. -
Chief Justice John Marshall
John Marshall was the fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. -
Arkansas
Fun Fact: Arkansas Capitol is Little Rock. -
Michigan
Fun Fact: Michigan's Capitol is Lansing. -
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Martin Van Buren
: Martin Van Buren was the 8th President of the United States, serving from 1837 to 1841. He was a Democrat and was a leading figure in the Jacksonian Era of American politics. : On March 25, 1839, Governor John Fairfield of Maine agreed to terms that ended the so-called Aroostook War. The issue at hand was the border between the American state of Maine and British Canadian province of New Brunswick. -
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Trail of Tears
- Andrew Jackson
- 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 Henry Harrison
: Shortest term as president. : Within the month he was president nothing major happened besides his death. -
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John Tyler
: He became the 1st Vice President to succeed to Presidency. : A boundary was settled between the U. S. And Great Britain that separates Main and Canada. -
Florida
Capitol: Tallahassee. -
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James K. Polk
: He led the nation to war with Mexico and acquired large amounts of territory during his term in office.
: In the Bear Flag Revolt, approximately thirty American settlers (anticipating the Mexican War) take over a small Mexican garrison in Sonoma, California, and declare California a free and independent republic. June 14, 1846 -
Texas
Capitol: Austin. -
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Mexican-American War
- The Mexican-American War Begins. On April 25, 1846, Mexican cavalry attacked a group of U.S. soldiers in the disputed zone under the command of General Zachary Taylor, killing about a dozen. They then laid siege to an American fort along the Rio Grande. -
Iowa
Capitol: Des Moines. -
Wisconsin
Capitol: Madison. -
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Zachary Taylor
: Promised the relative independence of the Utah Territory from the federal government to alleviate the Mormon population's concerns over religious freedom.
: Congress debates solutions to the issue of slavery's possible expansion into the territories won in the Mexican War. Henry Clay proposes the Compromise of 1850, and Daniel Webster with Stephen Douglas lead its supporters against the measure's opponents who coalesce around John C. Calhoun of South Carolina. May 1850 - December 1901 -
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Millard Fillmore
: As an anti-slavery moderate, Fillmore opposed Abolitionist demands to exclude slavery from territory gained in the Mexican War and supported the Compromise of 1850 instead.
: Gold is found in Oregon along the Rogue River, a prospective new territory for the California gold rushers of 1849. The discovery leads to the arrival of thousands of individuals in search of the metal. July 25, 1851 -
California
Capitol: Sacramento. -
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Franklin Pierce
: He presided over escalating sectional tensions and is generally viewed as an ineffective president when it came to preventing the nation's slide toward Civil War.
: “Bleeding Kansas” -- a guerilla war between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers as they attempt to establish “popular sovereignty” -- emerges and consumes Kansas for two years. 1854 - 1901 -
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James Buchanan
: The worst U.S. President.
: Congress passes the English Bill after Representative William Hayden English (Democrat-Indiana) strikes a compromise between the House and Senate bills on the admission of Kansas to the Union. The bill effectively resubmits the Lecompton Constitution to Kansas voters with the attached incentive of land if ratified. May 04, 1858 -
Minisota
Capitol: Saint Paul. -
Oregon
Capitol: Salem. -
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Abraham Lincoln
: Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation which began the process of freedom for America's slaves.
: The Civil War was taken place. -
Delaware
Fun Facts:
1.) Delaware was the first state to ratify the United States constitution. It did so on December 7, 1787.
2.) The peach blossom is Delaware's official state flower and has prompted Delaware's nickname as the peach state. -
Pennsylvania
Fun Facts:
1.) Pennsylvania is the only original colony not bordered by the Atlantic Ocean.
2.) Penn Township, officially referred to as the Township of Penn, was named after the founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. -
Manifest Destiny
- the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
- It was the primary force that caused the United States to expand west across North America. To Americans, expansion offered self-advancement, self-sufficiency, income and freedom.
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Dred Scott vs Sandford
- After failing to purchase the freedom of his family and himself, and with the help of abolitionist legal advisers, Scott sued Emerson for his freedom in a Missouri court in 1846. Scott received financial assistance for his case from the son of his previous owner, Peter Blow.
- Associate Justices John McLean · James M. Wayne John Catron · Peter V. Daniel Samuel Nelson · Robert C. Grier Benjamin R. Curtis · John A. Campbell
- Judgment reversed and suit dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.
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Gibbon V. Ogden
- Aaron Ogden filed a complaint in the Court of Chancery of New York asking the court to restrain Thomas Gibbons from operating on these waters. Ogden's lawyer contended that states often passed laws on issues regarding interstate matters and that states should have fully concurrent power with Congress on matters concerning interstate commerce.
- Bushrod Washington · William Johnson Thomas Todd · Gabriel Duvall Joseph Story · Smith Thompson
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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. -
Sojourner Truth
- Women's Rights Activist, Civil Rights Activist (c. 1797–1883)
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William Lloyd Garrison
- William Lloyd Garrison (December 12, 1805 – May 24, 1879) 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. He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
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Frederick Douglas
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895) 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. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) 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. -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) 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. -
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". 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. -
Horace Mann’s campaign for free compulsory public education .
Reformers, some influenced by the Prussian education reforms of the early 1800s, emerged at an incredible rate hoping to change the general form and ideals of American education to keep up with the evolving country. No longer would small rural schoolhouses, untrained teachers, or limitations in education opportunities suffice.
