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Delaware is a State
Delaware is America's 1st state. Delaware was the first state to ratify the United States constitution. It did so on December 7, 1787. -
Pennsylvania is a State
Pennsylvania is our2nd state. In 1909 the first baseball stadium was built in Pittsburgh. -
New Jersey is a State
New Jersey is America's 3rd state. 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 is a State
Georgia is our 4th state. Historic Saint Marys Georgia is the second oldest city in the nation. -
Connecticut is a State
Connecticut is our 5th state. The first telephone book ever issued contained only fifty names. The New Haven District Telephone Company published it in New Haven in February 1878. -
Massachusetts is a State
Massachusetts is our 6th state. Boston built the first subway system in the United States in 1897. -
Maryland is a State
Maryland is America's 8th state. The United States Naval Academy was founded on October 10, 1845 at Annapolis. -
South Carolina is a State
South Carolina is our 8th state.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 is a State
New Hampshire is America's 9th state. Of the thirteen original colonies, New Hampshire was the first to declare its independence from Mother England, a full six months before the Declaration of Independence was signed. -
Virginia is a State
Virginia is our 10th state. It was named for England's "Virgin Queen," Elizabeth I. -
New York is a State
New York is our 11th state. The 641 mile transportation network known as the Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway is the longest toll road in the United States. -
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George Washington is President
On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. He set the course for what our democracy is today. -
North Carolina is a State
North Carolina is our 12th state. 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 is a State
Rhode Island is America's 13th state. It is the smallest state in size in the United States. It covers an area of 1,214 square miles. Its distances North to South are 48 miles and East to West 37 miles. -
Vermont is a State
Vermont is our 14th state. Vermont was the first state admitted to the Union after the ratification of the Constitution. -
Kentucky is a State
Kentucky is our 15th state. The Kentucky Derby is the oldest continuously held horse race in the country. It is held at Churchill Downs in Louisville on the first Saturday in May. -
Whiskey Rebellion
On this date, George Washington met with cabinet officials from Pennsylvania to discuss how to deal with the rebellion. The Wiskey Rebellion started when the national government passed a tax on whiskey. This was not well accepted in frontier areas, especially Pennsylvania, where rebel groups began attacking tax collectors and government supporters. Washington then called up a militia of around 13,000 men to put down the rebellion. This event was the first real test on America's new government. -
Tennessee is a State
Tennessee is America's 16th state. It won its nickname as The Volunteer State during the War of 1812 when volunteer soldiers from Tennessee displayed marked valor in the Battle of New Orleans. -
Washington's Farewell Address
After serving two terms in office, George Washington, wrote a letter to the American people telling them of his resignation and giving them some warnings. The main two warning were about not having long term alliances with other countries, and the other warning was against political parties who are only concerned about themselves and not the good of the nation. -
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John Adams is President
John Adams, a remarkable political philosopher, served as the second president of the United States, after serving as the first vice president under George Washington. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed in 1798 by the federalist controlled congress and president John Adams. These acts increased the citizen requirement for immigrants, and restricted critical speech of the government. The law never took affect permanently and was the beginning of the end for the Federalist Party. -
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Chief Justice John Marshall
John Marshall was the fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. His court opinions helped lay the basis for United States constitutional law and made the Supreme Court of the United States a coequal branch of government along with the legislative and executive branches. His important case include Marbury v. Madison, Burr conspiracy trial, Fletcher v. Peck, McCulloch v. Maryland, Cohens v. Virginia, and Gibbons v. Ogden. -
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Thomas Jefferson is President
Thomas Jefferson, a spokesman for democracy, was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and the third President of the United States. In 1803, Jefferson made the Louisiana Purchase. -
Marbury v. Madison
Marbury v. Madison, arguably the most important case in Supreme Court history, was the first U.S. Supreme Court case to apply the principle of "judicial review" -- the power of federal courts to void acts of Congress in conflict with the Constitution. Written in 1803 by Chief Justice John Marshall, the decision played a key role in making the Supreme Court a separate branch of government on par with Congress and the executive. -
Ohio is a State
Ohio was the 17th state to be admitted to the Union. It is called the buckeye state because of its abundance of buckeye trees. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France in 1803. The territory contained land that forms parts of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico, Texas, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Louisiana. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition leaves St. Louis
The Lewis and Clark expedition was the first American expedition to to cross the western part of the United States. Commissioned by president Thomas Jefferson, the expedition left St. Louis in May, 1804, and arrived back in St. Louis in September 1806. The purpose of the mission was to explore the Louisiana Purchase. -
Abolitionist Movement
Abolitionism in the United States was the movement prior to the American Civil War to end slavery, whether formal or informal, in the United States. Abolitionist leaders included such figures as William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and William Lloyd Still. Its message was that all men are created equallly. -
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James Madison is President
James Madison, America's fourth President, 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, he was referred to as the "Father of the Constitution." -
Louisiana is a State
America's 18th state, Louisiana was named in honor of King Louis XIV. -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a military conflict, lasting for two-and-a-half years, between the United States and Great Britain. At the end of the war both sides signed the Treaty of Ghent and both parties returned occupied land to its pre-war owner and resumed friendly trade relations. Late victories over invading British armies at the battles of Plattsburg, Baltimore, and New Orleans produced a sense of euphoria in the United States. -
Indiana is a State
Indiana is America's 19th state. In this state, the first long-distance auto race in the U. S. was held May 30, 1911, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. -
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James Monroe is President
James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States and the last president from the Founding Fathers of the United States. In 1823, he wrote the Monroe Doctrine. -
Mississippi is a State
Mississippi is America's 20th state. In this state, Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, on January 8, 1935. -
Illinos is a State
Illinios is America's 21st state. In this state, the first Aquarium opened in Chicago, in 1893. -
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
In 1816, the New Hampshire legislature attempted to change Dartmouth College, a privately funded institution into a state university. They changed the school's corporate contract by transferring the control of trustee appointments to the governor. In an attempt to regain authority the old trustees filed suit against William H. Woodward, who sided with the governor. The Supreme Court held that the College's corporate charter qualified as a contract that the law couldn't interfere with. -
Transcontinental Treaty
The Transcontinental Treaty of 1819, also known as the Purchase of Florida, was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that gave Florida to the U.S. and set out a boundary between the U.S. and what is now Mexico. It settled a standing border dispute between the two countries and was considered a triumph of American diplomacy. -
McCullouch v. Maryland
In 1818, Maryland decided to impose a tax on all of their banks. James William McCulloch, head of the Baltimore Branch of the Second Bank of the United States, refused to pay the tax. He argued that Congress did not have the right to charter a bank. Maryland said that the constitution is silent on this subject. The court upheld Maryland. The case was then appealed to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled that congress did have the right to charter a bank, but the tax was unconstitutional. -
Alabama is a State
This state is our 22nd state. It is the first state on an alphabetical list. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was a federal act in the United States that regulated slavery in the country's western territories. The compromise was agreed to by the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress and passed as a law in 1820. It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north, except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. -
Maine is a State
Maine is our 23rd state. Eastport, Maine is the most eastern city in the United States. The city is considered the first place in the United States to receive the rays of the morning sun. -
Missouri is a State
Missouri is our 24th state. In this state, the first successful parachute jump to be made from a moving airplane was made by Captain Berry at St. Louis, in 1912. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a US foreign policy regarding European countries. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention. At the same time, the doctrine noted that the United States would neither interfere with existing European colonies nor meddle in the internal concerns of European countries. -
Gibbons v. Ogden
A New York state law gave to individuals the exclusive right to operate steamboats on waters within state jurisdiction. some states would require out-of-state boats to pay substantial fees for navigation privileges. In this case, Thomas Gibbons challenged the monopoly license granted by New York to Aaron Ogden. The Supreme Court found that New York's licensing requirement for out-of-state operators was conflicting with a congressional act regulating the coasting trade. -
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John Quincy Adams is President
John Quincy Adams, son of John and Abigail Adams, served as the sixth President of the United States. A member of multiple political parties over the years, he also served as a diplomat, a Senator and member of the House of Representatives. -
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Andrew Jackson is President
Andrew Jackson was the 7th President of the United States from, seeking to act as the direct representative of the common man. In 1830 he commissioned the Indian Removal Act, causing the Trail of Tears in the years that followed. -
Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears commonly refers to a series of forced relocations of Native American nations in the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830 passed by Andrew Jackson. The removal included members of the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations, who chose not to incorperate with American society, and move from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern U.S. to an area west of the Mississippi River that had been designated as Indian Territory. -
William 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 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. The rebellion was effectively suppressed at Belmont Plantation a few days after it began. -
Arkansas is a State
Arkansas was part of the Louisiana Purchase. It was the 25th state in the United States. Arkansas contains over 600,000 acres of lakes and 9,700 miles of streams and rivers. -
Michigan is a State
Michigan is our 26th state. Detroit, Michigan is known as the car capital of the world. -
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Martin Van Buren is President
Martin Van Buren was the eighth President of the United States, 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. -
Horace Mann’s Campaign for Free Compulsory Public Education.
It was not until he was appointed secretary in 1837 of the newly created board of education of Massachusetts that he began the work which was to place him in the foremost rank of American educationists. This led him to become the most prominent national spokesman for that position. He held this position, and worked with a remarkable intensity, holding teachers' conventions, delivering numerous lectures and addresses, carrying on an extensive correspondence, and introducing numerous reforms. -
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William Harrison is President
William Henry Harrison, an American military officer and politician, was the ninth President of the United States, 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. -
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John Tyler is President
John Tyler became the tenth President of the United States 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. -
Florida is a State
Florida is America's 27th state. Orlando, Florida attracts more visitors than any other amusement park destination in the United States. -
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James K. Polk is President
Often referred to as the first "dark horse," James Knox Polk was the 11th President of the United States, the last strong President until the Civil War. -
Texas is a State
Texas is our 28th state. Texas is the only state to have the flags of 6 different nations fly over it. They are: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederate States, and the United States. -
Manifest Destiny
In the 19th century, Manifest Destiny was a widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. Historians have for the most part agreed that there are three basic themes to Manifest Destiny: the special virtues of the American people and their institutions,
America's mission to redeem and remake the west in the image of agrarian America, and an irresistible destiny to accomplish this essential duty. -
Mexican-American War
The Mexican–American War was an armed conflict between the United States and the Centralist Republic of Mexico from 1846 to 1848. It followed in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory, despite the 1836 Texas Revolution. 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 is a State
Iowa is our 29th state. Strawberry Point, Iowa is the home of the world's largest strawberry. -
Wisconsin is a State
Wisconsin is our 30th state. Wisconsin visitors and residents enjoy the state's 7,446 streams and rivers. End-to-end they'd stretch 26,767 miles. That is more than enough to circle the globe at the equator. -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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. -
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". Held in Seneca Falls, New York, it spanned two days over July 19–20, 1848. In attendance were Susan B. Anthony, Elizibeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott, among many others. -
Seneca Falls Resolution
The Seneca Falls Resolution was Elizibeth Cady Stantons, "Declaration of Sentiments," a document that stated how women across the U.S. felt and that they wanted their right to vote. This document was later published in a newspaper. This event was the first widely recognized organized protest for womens' suffrage. -
Susan B. Anthony
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. -
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Zachary Taylor is President
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. -
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and during the American Civil War, a Union spy. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made about thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era struggle for womens rights. -
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Millard Fillmore is President
Millard Fillmore, a member of the Whig party, was the 13th President of the United States and the last president not to be affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties. -
California is a State
California is America's 31st state. More turkeys are raised in California than in any other state in the United States. -
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, 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. Her best-known speech, on gender inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?", was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. -
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. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. -
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Franklin Pierce is President
Franklin Pierce became 14th President of the United States at a time of apparent tranquility. 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 is President
James Buchanan, Jr., the 15th President of the United States, 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 and in an area of the Louisiana Territory, where slavery was forbidden. 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. The Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott was a slave. They argued that no person descended from an American slave had ever been a citizen for Article III purposes. -
Minnesota is a State
Minnestota is America's 32nd state. The climate-controlled Metrodome is the only facility in the country to host a Super Bowl, a World Series and a NCAA Final Four Basketball Championship. -
Oregon is a State
Oregon is our 33rd state. Oregon's state flag pictures a beaver on its reverse side. It is the only state flag to carry two separate designs. -
John Brown and the Armed Resistance
John Brown was a white American abolitionist who believed armed uprising was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. In 1859, Brown led an unsuccessful raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry that ended with his capture. Brown's trial resulted in his conviction and a sentence of death by hanging. Historians agree that the Harpers Ferry raid in 1859 escalated tensions that, a year later, led to secession and the American Civil War. -
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Abraham Lincoln is President
Abraham Lincoln became the United States' 16th President in 1861, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863.
