50 states by edgar
- 1. 50 states Edgar Noguez William's Computer app.6 3/26/2013
- 2. Nevada • The Native Indians of • 1843 - The First wagon Nevada were the were trains led by Joseph the Koso, Paiute, Walker cross the Sierra Panamint, Pueblo, • 1847 - Mormons move Shoshoni and Ute tribes to Salt Lake Valley • First explored by the Spanish • 1826 - Jeddah Smith (1799-1831) leads expedition to Meadow Valley Wash, Nevada
- 3. California • California was first • 1545 - The Europeans explored by the Spanish bring typhus to California • 1535 - Hernando Cortes and the epidemic kills leads an expedition to La hundreds of thousands of Paz and opens a small natives colony • 1539 - Francisco de Ulla • 1579 - The great British explores the gulf of sailor, Sir Francis Drake, California lands north of San Francisco Bay and claims the territory for England but the land is taken by the Spanish
- 4. new York • 1600 - European settlers • 1857 - Joseph Gayety of who brought seeds to New York City invented New York introduced toilet paper. apples in the 1600s. • 1848 - First women's • 1747 - The oldest cattle rights convention met at ranch in the US was Seneca Falls. started at Montauk on Long Island. • 1876 - First Boy's Club was established in New York City.
- 5. Hawaii • 18.Day biting mosquitoes • During the Hawaiian first arrived in Hawaii in Monarchy, Hawaii's 1872 as stowaways aboard population was among the a merchant ship, bringing most literate in the world. with them new diseases • •Hawaii is considered the such as malaria and the nation's (USA) endangered plague. species capitol. • 6.Hawaii has two official • 19.Hawaii is America’s languages, Hawaiian and youngest state, entering the English, though Pidgin, nation on August 21, 1959. Samoan, and Tongan are also spoken.
- 6. Arizona • 2.The Arizona trout is • Arizona is a right-to-work found only in the Arizona. state. The law states no • 4.Arizona leads the nation person shall be denied in copper production. the opportunity to obtain • 5.Petrified wood is the or retain employment official state fossil. Most because of non- petrified wood comes membership in a labor from the Petrified Forest organization. in northeastern Arizona. • Arizona is home of the Grand Canyon National Park.
- 7. New jersey • New Jersey is the only • New Jersey is home to state where all its the Miss America pageant counties are classified as held in Atlantic City. metropolitan areas. • 19.Atlantic City is where • New Jersey has the most the street names came dense system of highways from for the game and railroads in the U.S. monopoly • New Jersey is a major seaport state with the largest seaport in the U.S. located in Elizabeth.
- 8. Texas • The Texas state capitol • The world's biggest building in Austin is taller Roadrunner is Pisano than the United States Pete. The 11-foot tall and capitol building in 20-foot long roadrunner Washington, D.C. graces the corner of Main • Biggest Chicken-Fried Street and Hwy 290 in Steaks in the World Fort Stockton, Texas. • Largest State Fair is the • The deepest hole ever Texas State Fair located in made in the world is in Big "D" (Dallas to all you Texas. It is as deep as 20 Yankees!) on a whopping empire state buildings but 50 acres at Fair Park only 3 inches wide.
- 9. Utah • Levan, is "navel" spelled • Rainbow Bridge, Nature's backwards. It is so named abstract sculpture carved because it is in the middle of solid sandstone, is the of Utah world's largest natural- • The average snowfall in rock span. It stands 278 the mountains near Salt feet wide and 309 feet Lake City is 500 inches. high. • Salt Lake City was originally named Great • 13.State animal: The Salt Lake City. Great was Rocky Mountain Elk. dropped from the name in 1868.
- 10. Oklahoma • 34.Oklahoma's four • 36.Oklahoma was the mountain ranges include setting for the movie the Ouachita's, "Twister". Arbuckle's, Wichita's and • 44.Oklahoma has more the Kiamichi's. man-made lakes than any • 27.Garth Brooks was born other state, with over one in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He million surface acres of grew up in Yukon, water Oklahoma. • 23.Tahlequah, Oklahoma is the Tribal capital of the Cherokee Nation.
- 11. Pennsylvania • Pennsylvania is the first • In 1913 the first state of the fifty United automobile service States to list their web station opened in site URL on a license Pittsburgh. plate. • In 1946 Philadelphia • In 1909 the first became home to the baseball stadium was first computer. built in Pittsburgh. • Hershey is considered the Chocolate Capital of the United States