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Original thirteen states. The United States of America initially consisted of 13 states that had been British colonies until their independence was declared in 1776 and verified by the Treaty of Paris in 1783: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware ...
Sep 18, 2019 · The caption on the original image was "To Labor is to Pray." Wikimedia Commons The first major discovery of silver ore in the US, the Comstock Lode sparked a silver rush in 1859.
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► Population:4,887,871 ► Size (square miles):50,645 ► Capital:Montgomery ► Founded:Dec. 14, 1819 (22nd state to join) ► Famous landmarks:Edmund Pettus Bridge Alabama's boundaries were created in colonial times. In March 1663, King Charles II of England created the Carolina colony out of the larger colony of Virginia and placed the southern limit of...
► Population:737,438 ► Size (square miles):570,641 ► Capital:Juneau ► Founded:Jan. 3, 1959 (49th state to join) ► Famous landmarks:Denali (formerly Mount McKinley) Alaska and Hawaii are the only two states that do not share a border with any other part of the U.S. Alaska is surrounded by the Arctic and Pacific oceans on its North, South, and West s...
► Population:7,171,646 ► Size (square miles):113,594 ► Capital:Phoenix ► Founded:Feb. 14, 1912 (48th state to join) ► Famous landmarks:Grand Canyon Arizona's current shape came to be in 1863, nearly 50 years before the area became a state. Arizona and New Mexico were split into separate territories when President Abraham Lincoln signed the Arizona ...
► Population:3,013,825 ► Size (square miles):52,035 ► Capital:Little Rock ► Founded:June 15, 1836 (25th state to join) ► Famous landmarks:Hot Springs National Park Arkansas borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. An act of Congress in 1819 created the state's ...
► Population:39,557,045 ► Size (square miles):155,779 ► Capital:Sacramento ► Founded:Sept. 9, 1850 (31st state to join) ► Famous landmarks:Hollywood sign Aside from its western border, which is the Pacific Ocean, California set its northern border along the 42nd parallel and the southern border was settled by the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo with Me...
► Population:5,695,564 ► Size (square miles):103,641 ► Capital:Denver ► Founded:Aug. 1, 1876 (38th state to join) ► Famous landmarks:Pikes Peak Colorado began as a rectangular state when Congress created its territorial boundaries in 1861. The borders were established between 37th and 41st parallels, and the 25th and 32nd longitudes. The area was t...
► Population:3,572,665 ► Size (square miles):4,842 ► Capital:Hartford ► Founded:Jan. 9, 1788 (5th state to join) ► Famous landmarks:Mark Twain House The original charter creating Connecticut's border issued by King Charles II in 1662 would have allowed Connecticut to claim most of Rhode Island, eastern Long Island, and all territory west to the Pac...
► Population:967,171 ► Size (square miles):1,948 ► Capital:Dover ► Founded:Dec. 7, 1787 (1st state to join) ► Famous landmarks:Mason Dixon Marker The borders of Delaware, the nation's first state, were created as a result of the resolution of disputes between the state and with Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey. Delaware was deeded to William ...
► Population:21,299,325 ► Size (square miles):53,624 ► Capital:Tallahassee ► Founded:March 3, 1845 (27th state to join) ► Famous landmarks:Castillo de San Marcos Spanish explorers first came to Florida in the 16th century, and the Florida Panhandle once stretched to the Mississippi River. Spain claimed to own the territories around New Orleans, but...
► Population:10,519,475 ► Size (square miles):57,513 ► Capital:Atlanta ► Founded:Jan. 2, 1788 (4th state to join) ► Famous landmarks:Ebenezer Baptist Church Georgia, founded by James Oglethorpe in 1732, defined its northeastern boundary as the beginning of the headwaters of the Savannah River. Georgia's southern boundary with Florida is marked by a...
An image of the first U.S. president (1789–1797), George Washington, based on the Athenaeum Portrait, a 1796 painting by Gilbert Stuart, is currently featured on the obverse, and the Great Seal of the United States is featured on the reverse.
Feb 1, 2024 · At the onset of the 19th century, as Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the Corps of Discovery made their way up the Missouri River and followed the Columbia River to the shores of the Pacific Ocean, the image of western North America evolved from an almost empty and simple interior with a theoretical single mountainous divide, to a complex ...
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Apr 14, 2024 · national flag consisting of white stars (50 since July 4, 1960) on a blue canton with a field of 13 alternating stripes, 7 red and 6 white. The 50 stars stand for the 50 states of the union, and the 13 stripes stand for the original 13 states.
Feb 1, 2024 · In this gallery of five maps, we examine the creation and expansion of the United States from the colonization of North America by European powers to the routes of the explorers who pushed ever westwards...
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