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Delaware
Delaware was the first state. It's state bird is the Blue Hen. -
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania was the second state added to the union. It's capital city is Harrisburg. -
New Jersey
New Jersey was the third state added to the union. It's state tree is the Northern Red Oak. -
Georgia
Georgia was the fourth state added to the union. It's nickname is "the peach state" -
Connecticut
Connecticut was the fifth state added to the union. It's capital city is Hartford. -
Massachusetts
Massachusetts was the sixth state added to the union. It's capital city is Boston. -
Maryland
Maryland was the seventh state added to the union. It's state bird is the Baltimore Oriole. -
South Carolina
South Carolina is the eighth state added to the union. It's capital is Columbia. -
New Hampshire
New Hampshire was the ninth state added to the union. It's capital city is Concord. -
Virginia
Virginias capital is Richmond. -
New York
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George Washington
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. At 16 he helped survey Shenandoah lands for Thomas, Lord Fairfax. Commissioned a lieutenant colonel in 1754, he fought the first skirmishes of what grew into the French and Indian War. -
North Carolina
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Rhode Island
Capital: Providence -
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Whiskey Rebellion
In western Pennsylvania mostly, the people were angry because their whiskey was being taxed and they had no representation. 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 already underway. -
Vermont
Capital City: Montpelier -
Kentucky
State Nickname: Blue grass state -
Washingtons farewell adress
Washington said we need to not disapprove of his retirement and that the country needs to stay on track. -
Tennessee
Nickname: Volunteer -
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John Adams
John Adams was more remarkable as a political philosopher than as a politician. During the Revolutionary War he served in France and Holland in diplomatic roles, and helped negotiate the treaty of peace. From 1785 to 1788 he was minister to the Court of St. James's, returning to be elected Vice President under George Washington. -
Alien a sedition acts
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. These laws were designed to silence and weaken the Democratic-Republican Party. Negative reaction to the Alien and Sedition Acts he -
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Thomas Jefferson
In the Virginia House of Burgesses and the Continental Congress, Jefferson contributed his pen rather than his voice to the patriot cause. As the "silent member" of the Congress, Jefferson, at 33, drafted the Declaration of Independence. In years following he labored to make its words a reality in Virginia. Most notably, he wrote a bill establishing religious freedom, enacted in 1786. -
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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.
His biggest case was:
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Marbury v. Madison
Although the power of judicial review is sometimes said to have originated with Marbury, the concept of judicial review has ancient roots. Congress cannot pass laws that are contrary to the Constitution, and it is the role of the Judicial system to interpret what the Constitution permits. -
Ohio
Nickname: Buckeye state -
Louisianna purchase
The Pinckney treaty of 1795 had resolved friction between Spain and the United States over the right to navigate the Mississippi and the right for Americans to transfer their goods to ocean-going vessels at New Orleans. With the Pinckney treaty in place and the weak Spanish empire in control of Louisiana, American statesmen felt comfortable that the United States’ westward expansion would not be restricted in the future.Napoleon decided to give up his plans for Louisiana, and offered a surprise -
Lewis & Clark
Thirty-three people, including 29 participants in training at the 1803–1804 Camp Dubois (Camp Wood) winter staging area, then in the Indiana Territory, were near present-day Wood River, Illinois, on the east bank of the Mississippi. they reached the Pawnee settlement on the Platte River in central Nebraska, they learned that the expedition had been there many days before, but because the expedition at that point was covering 70 to 80 miles a day, Vial's attempt to intercept them was unsuccessful -
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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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The War Of 1812
The war was between the U.S and the British Empire.
The result of the war was the U.S won and the Tready of Ghent was signed. -
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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." -
Louisiana
Nickname: Pelican state -
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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. -
Indiana
Nickname: Hoosier state -
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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. -
Mississippi
Nickname:Mongolia state -
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass (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. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. -
Illinois
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McCullouch v. Maryland,
The state of Maryland cannot tax the federal Bank of the United States. This Case also set a precedent for the federalist doctrine of “loose construction” of the interpretation of the Constitution. 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. This is another example of Federal power being asserted over the power of a state. -
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
Marshall asserts the Constitution’s safeguards of government trying to change or nullify contracts, a decision that will set the precedent of safeguarding business from state legislatures and later allowing corporations to escape government control. Dartmouth College was given a charter by King George III in 1769 and the state of New Hampshire was trying to change Dartmouth character. -
Transcontinental treaty
It was the treaty between the U.S and Spain giving the U.S Florida. -
Alabama
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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. 11 slave states 11 free. Wanted to add another but it was not balanced. More slave laws if uneven added Maine as free. Missouri was north of the line that was not supposed to be a slave state. -
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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 -
Maine
Nickname: Pine tree state -
Missouri
Capital City: Jefferson City -
Monroe Doctrine
James Monroe gave a speech of the forien policy of the united states. -
Gibbons v. Ogden
Marshall enforces the point in the Constitution that grants Congress alone the power to control interstate commerce, not the individual states. In this case, the State of New York attempted to grant a monopoly of water-borne commerce between New York and Virginia. Marshall and the Supreme Court denied this deal on the basis that the Constitution grants only Congress the control of interstate commerce, dealing another blow to states’ right proponents -
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John Quincy Adams
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 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. In 1851, Truth joined George Thompson, an abolitionist and speaker, on a lecture tour through central and western New York State. In May, she attended the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio where she delivered her famous extemporaneous speech on women's rights "ain't I a women" -
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Andrew Jackson
Jackson prospered sufficiently to buy slaves and to build a mansion, the Hermitage, near Nashville. He was the first man elected from Tennessee to the House of Representatives, and he served briefly in the Senate. A major general in the War of 1812, Jackson became a national hero when he defeated the British at New Orleans. -
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Abolishonist Movement
From the 1830s until 1870, the abolitionist movement attempted to achieve immediate emancipation of all slaves and the ending of racial segregation and discrimination. Their propounding of these goals distinguished abolitionists from the broad-based political opposition to slavery’s westward expansion that took form in the North after 1840 and raised issues leading to the Civil War. By the early 1830s, Theodore Weld, William Lloyd Garrison, Arthur and many others agreed and fought for the cause. -
Nat Turner
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. -
Horace Mann Campaign for free compulsory education
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. -
Arkansas
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Michigan
State nickname: Great Lakes State -
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Martin Van Buren
As a young lawyer he became involved in New York politics. As leader of the "Albany Regency," an effective New York political organization, he shrewdly dispensed public offices and bounty in a fashion calculated to bring votes. Yet he faithfully fulfilled official duties, and in 1821 was elected to the United States Senate. -
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 Henry Harrison
In the War of 1812 Harrison won more military laurels when he was given the command of the Army in the Northwest with the rank of brigadier general. At the Battle of the Thames, north of Lake Erie, on October 5, 1813, he defeated the combined British and Indian forces, and killed Tecumseh. The Indians scattered, never again to offer serious resistance in what was then called the Northwest. -
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John Tyler
Serving in the House of Representatives from 1816 to 1821, Tyler voted against most nationalist legislation and opposed the Missouri Compromise. After leaving the House he served as Governor of Virginia. As a Senator he reluctantly supported Jackson for President as a choice of evils. Tyler soon joined the states' rights Southerners in Congress who banded with Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and their newly formed Whig party opposing President Jackson. -
Florida
State nickname: Sunshine state -
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James K. Polk
In the House of Representatives, Polk was a chief lieutenant of Jackson in his Bank war. He served as Speaker between 1835 and 1839, leaving to become Governor of Tennessee. -
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
Nickname : Lone star state -
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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. -
Iowa
Nickname: Hawkeye state -
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Wisconsin
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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. -
Seneca Fall 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. Attracting widespread attention, it was soon followed by other women's rights conventions, including one in Rochester, New York two weeks later. -
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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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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. -
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Millard Fillmore
Fillmore presided over the Senate during the months of nerve-wracking debates over the Compromise of 1850. He made no public comment on the merits of the compromise proposals, but a few days before President Taylor's death, he intimated to him that if there should be a tie vote on Henry Clay's bill, he would vote in favor of it. -
California
Nickname: Golden state -
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Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce became President at a time of apparent tranquility. The United States, by virtue of the Compromise of 1850, seemed to have weathered its sectional storm. By pursuing the recommendations of southern advisers, Pierce--a New Englander--hoped to prevent still another outbreak of that storm. But his policies, far from preserving calm, hastened the disruption of the Union. -
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.
The question of the case was: Is Dred Scott free or a slave?
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James Buchanan
Presiding over a rapidly dividing Nation, Buchanan grasped inadequately the political realities of the time. Relying on constitutional doctrines to close the widening rift over slavery, he failed to understand that the North would not accept constitutional arguments which favored the South. Nor could he realize how sectionalism had realigned political parties: the Democrats split; the Whigs were destroyed, giving rise to the Republicans. -
John Brown and the armed resistance
John Brown was a white American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. Brown's attempt in 1859 to start a liberation movement among enslaved African Americans in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, electrified the nation. He was tried for treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, the murder of five men and inciting a slave insurrection. -
Oregon
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Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln never let the world forget that the Civil War involved an even larger issue. This he stated most movingly in dedicating the military cemetery at Gettysburg: "that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." -
Minnesota
Capital: Saint Paul
