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Delaware
Delaware is the only state without any National Park System units such as national parks, seashores, historic sites, battlefields, memorials, and monuments. -
Pennsylvania
In 1946 Philadelphia became home to the first computer. -
New Jersey
New Jersey has the most diners in the world and is sometimes referred to as the diner capital of the world. -
Georgia
The official state fish is the largemouth bass. -
Connecticut
In Hartford, you may not, under any circumstances, cross the street walking on your hands! -
Massachusetts
Boston built the first subway system in the United States in 1897. -
Maryland
Babe Ruth, the Sultan of Swat, was born in Baltimore and attended Saint Mary's Industrial School. -
South Carolina
The salamander was given the honor of official state amphibian. -
New Hampshire
The first potato planted in the United States was at Londonderry Common Field in 1719. -
Virginia
The first peanuts grown in the United States were grown in Virginia. -
New York
New York State is home to 58 species of wild orchids. -
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George Washington
He served as a U.S president, he accomplished helping set up the Constitutional Convention which gave America the rights we have today. -
North Carolina
Krispy Kreme Doughnut was founded in Winston-Salem. -
Rhode Island
The first circus in the United States was in Newport in 1774. -
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Whiskey Rebellion
The farmers didn't like the tax so they started to rebel. George Washington was forced to send his militia to stop them. It didn't take too long but they resolved the issue. -
Vermont
In ratio of cows to people, Vermont has the greatest number of dairy cows in the country. -
Kentucky
Cheeseburgers were first served in 1934 at Kaolin's restaurant in Louisville. -
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Horace Mann
Principal advocate of the nineteenth-century common school movement, Horace Mann became the catalyst for tuition-free public education and established the concept of state-sponsored free schools. -
Tennessee
There are more horses per capita in Shelby County than any other county in the United States. -
Washingtons Farewell Address
Washington urged Americans to avoid excessive political party spirit and geographical distinctions. In foreign affairs, he warned against long-term alliances with other nations. -
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John Adams
He was a U.S president. One of his accomplishments was when Adams heard that France had no stomach for war and would receive an envoy with respect. Long negotiations ended the quasi war. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
the Alien and Sedition Acts consisted of four laws passed by the Federalist-controlled Congress as America prepared for war with France. These acts increased the residency requirement for American citizenship from five to fourteen years, 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. -
Chief Justice John Marshall
His major cases were Marybury vs Madison (1803), McCulloch vs Maryland (1819), Cohens vs Virginia (1821), Gibbons vs Ogden (1824). John Marshall made the relationship between the judicial branch to the rest of the government clear. Appointed in early 1801. -
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Thomas Jefferson
Served as a U.S president. One of his accomplishments was when Jefferson assumed the Presidency, the crisis in France had passed. He slashed Army and Navy expenditures, cut the budget, eliminated the tax on whiskey so unpopular in the West, yet reduced the national debt by a third. Further, Jefferson suppressed his qualms over constitutionality when he had the opportunity to acquire the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon in 1803. -
Marbury vs. Madison
William Marbury (P) was an intended recipient of an appointment as justice of the peace. Marbury applied directly to the Supreme Court of the United States for a writ of mandamus to compel Jefferson’s Secretary of State, James Madison (D), to deliver the commissions. -
Ohio
Ermal Fraze invented the pop-top can in Kettering. -
Louisiana Purchase
828,000 share miles for 15 million dollars. The U.S needed more land and France owned Louisiana. After making the purchase, France left the U.S and the expansion west began. -
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Lewis & Clark
Lewis and Clark set out to find new land. In the process they found many other different lands. They traveled all the way to St. Louis -
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James Madison
James Madison, America's fourth President (1809-1817), made a major contribution to the ratification of the Constitution by writing The Federalist Papers, along with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay. In later years, when he was referred to as the "Father of the Constitution." -
Hariet Tubman
She started the Underground Railroad. 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. It was very dangerous to be a runaway slave. During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. Went till 1850. -
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. -
War of 1812
In the War of 1812, the United States took on the greatest naval power in the world, Great Britain, in a conflict that would have an immense impact on the young country’s future. 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. The United States suffered many costly defeats at the hands of British, Canadian and Native American troops over the course of the War of 1812. -
Indiana
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
James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States (1817–1825) and the last president from the Founding Fathers of the United States. Monroe made unusually strong Cabinet choices, naming a Southerner, John C. Calhoun, as Secretary of War, and a northerner, John Quincy Adams, as Secretary of State. -
Mississippi
Borden's Condensed Milk was first canned in Liberty. -
Illinois
Des Plaines is home to the first McDonald's. -
Dartmouth College vs. Woodward
In 1816, the New Hampshire legislature attempted to change Dartmouth College-- a privately funded institution--into a state university. 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. Woodward won the case. It protected businesses and corporations. -
Transcontinental Treaty
The Transcontinental Treaty divided the Spanish and United State North American claims along a line from the southeastern corner of what is now Louisiana, north and west to what is now Wyoming, west along the latitude 42° N to the Pacific. Spain gave up Florida and Oregon as long as they got Texas. -
McCullouch vs. Maryland
In 1816, Congress chartered The Second Bank of the United States. In 1818, the state of Maryland passed legislation to impose taxes on the bank. James W. McCulloch, the cashier of the Baltimore branch of the bank, refused to pay the tax. -
Alabama
The pecan is the Alabama's official nut. -
Missouri Compromise
They reached a boiling point after Missouri’s 1819 request for admission to the Union as a slave state, which threatened to upset the delicate balance between slave states and free states. To keep the peace, Congress orchestrated a two-part compromise, granting Missouri’s request but also admitting Maine as a free state. -
Maine
The honeybee is the official state insect. -
Missouri
The state animal is the Mule. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was articulated in President James Monroe's seventh annual message to Congress on December 2, 1823. The European powers, according to Monroe, were obligated to respect the Western Hemisphere as the United States' sphere of interest. U. S is out of Euroean affairs. Europe stay out. -
Gibbons vs. 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. -
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John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams, son of John and Abigail Adams, served as the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. A member of multiple political parties over the years, he also served as a diplomat, a Senator and member of the House of Representatives. -
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth was a prominent abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Born a slave in New York State. After escaping slavery in 1827, Truth embraced evangelical religion and became involved in moral reform and abolitionist work. She collected supplies for black regiments during the Civil War. She is perhaps best known for her stirring “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech, delivered at a women’s convention in Ohio in 1851. In the mid-1850s she settled in Battle Creek, Michigan for the rest of her life. -
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Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was the 7th President of the United States from 1829-1837, seeking to act as the direct representative of the common man. As national politics polarized around Jackson and his opposition, two parties grew out of the old Republican Party--the Democratic Republicans, or Democrats, adhering to Jackson; and the National Republicans, or Whigs, opposing him. -
Abolitionist Movement
This movement was said to abolish slavery. Slaves were on their way to freedom. -
Wiiliam Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison 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. He promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner’s rebellion was one of the largest slave rebellions ever to take place in the United States, and it played an important role in the development of antebellum slave society. Nat was tried in court, convicted, then he was hung later. -
Arkansas
The apple blossom is the official state flower. It was designated in 1901. -
Michigan
Michigan has the longest freshwater shoreline in the world. -
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Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren was the eighth President of the United States (1837–1841), after serving as the eighth Vice President and the tenth secretary of state, both under Andrew Jackson. While the country was prosperous when the "Little Magician" was elected, less than three months later the financial panic of 1837 punctured the prosperity. -
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. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 of the Cherokees died. -
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was a prominent American abolitionist, author and orator. Born a slave, Douglass escaped at age 20 and went on to become a world-renowned anti-slavery activist. Douglass’ work as a reformer ranged from his abolitionist activities in the early 1840s to his attacks on Jim Crow and lying in the 1890s. -
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William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison, an American military officer and politician, was the ninth President of the United States (1841), the oldest president to be elected at the time. He became the first to die in office on his 32nd day, serving the shortest tenure in United States presidential history. When he arrived in Washington in February 1841, Harrison let Daniel Webster edit his Inaugural Address, ornate with classical allusions. -
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John Tyler
John Tyler became the tenth President of the United States (1841–1845) when William Henry Harrison, his running mate, died in April 1841. He was the first Vice President elevated to President after the death of a predecessor. In 1842 Tyler did sign a tariff bill protecting northern manufacturers. The Webster-Ashburton treaty ended a Canadian boundary dispute; in 1845 Texas was annexed. -
Florida
Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where the drink was first developed. -
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James K. Polk
Often referred to as the first "dark horse," James Knox Polk was the 11th President of the United States from 1845-1849, the last strong President until the Civil War. He offered to settle by extending the Canadian boundary, along the 49th parallel, from the Rockies to the Pacific. When the British minister declined, Polk reasserted the American claim to the entire area. Finally, the British settled for the 49th parallel. The treaty was signed in 1846. -
Texas
Texas is popularly known as The Lone Star State. -
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Mexican-American War
Mexican cavalry attacked a group of U.S. soldiers in the disputed zone under the command of General Zachary Taylor, killing about a dozen. Finally, on Feb. 2, 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, establishing the Rio Grande and not the Nueces River as the U.S.-Mexican border. -
Iowa
Strawberry Point is the home of the world's largest strawberry. -
Wisconsin
The state is nicknamed the Badger State. -
Seneca Falls Convention
At the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, N.Y., a 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. -
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Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor, a general and national hero in the United States Army from the time of the Mexican-American War and the the War of 1812, was later elected the 12th President of the United States, serving from March 1849 until his death in July 1850. His long military record would appeal to northerners; his ownership of 100 slaves would lure southern votes. He had not committed himself on troublesome issues. -
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Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore, a member of the Whig party, was the 13th President of the United States (1850–1853) and the last president not to be affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties. On August 6, 1850, he sent a message to Congress recommending that Texas be paid to abandon her claims to part of New Mexico. This helped influence all land gained by the Mexican War must be closed to slavery. -
California
More turkeys are raised in California than in any other state in the United States. -
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Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce became 14th President of the United States at a time of apparent tranquility (1853–1857). By pursuing the recommendations of southern advisers, Pierce--a New Englander--hoped to prevent still another outbreak of that storm. -
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James Buchanan
James Buchanan, Jr., the 15th President of the United States (1857–1861), served immediately prior to the American Civil War. He remains the only president to be elected from Pennsylvania and to remain a lifelong bachelor. -
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. -
Minnesota
The stapler was invented in Spring Valley. -
Oregon
Oregon has more ghost towns than any other state. -
John Brown and the Armed Resistance
John Brown was a radical abolitionist who believed in the violent overthrow of the slavery system. During the Bleeding Kansas conflicts. Brown and his sons led attacks on pro-slavery residents. He believed that the only way to end slavery was through violence. Brown led an attack on an armory, Harper's Ferry, Virginia and killed seven more people but injured more. He was caught and hanged for murder and treason at age 59. It was the start of the rebellion. -
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Abraham Lincoln
He was a U.S president, he accomplished leading the Civil War that ended Slavery. -
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. With her advocacy of liberal divorce laws and reproductive self-determination, Cady Stanton became an increasingly marginalized voice among women reformers late in life. However, her efforts helped bring about the eventual passage of the 19th Amendment. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was a phrase which invoked the idea of divine sanction for the territorial expansion of the United States. -
Susan B. Anthony
Born on Feb. 15, 1820, in Adams, Mass., Susan B. Anthony was a pioneer crusader for the woman suffrage movement in the United States and president (1892-1900) of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Her work helped pave the way for the Nineteenth Amendment (1920) to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote.
