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important events in history and where they happend
| Hint | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Constitutional Convention was held here | Pennsylvania |
| The Adams-Onis Treaty dealt with this state | Florida |
| The Author of the large-state plan came from here | Virginia |
| The author of the small-state plan represented this state | New Jersey |
| Roger Sherman, author of the Great Compromise, represented this state | Connecticut |
| The United States annexed this area in 1845 | Texas |
| Muscle Shoals is in this state | Tennessee |
| This state is known as the "sooner State" | Oklahoma |
| The Mormons finally settled here | Utah |
| This is the Centennial State | Colorado |
| This state was admitted as a free state in 1820 | Maine |
| This state was originally the Bear Flag Republic | California |
| This was the last of the continental forty-eight states to be admitted to the Union | Arizona |
| This is the site of the Teapot Dome | Wyoming |
| This colony was orginally set up for debtors | Georgia |
| This was the first state to succede | South Carolina |
| Vickburg is in this state | Mississippi |
| The Green Mountains are in this state | Vermont |
| Lexington and Concord are located here | Massachusets |
| Ohio's Western Reserve was origionally a part of this state | Conneticut |
| The Whiskey Rebellion took place here | Pennsylvania |
| Shey's Rebellion took place here | Massachusetts |
| This was the site of the Haymarket Riot | Illinois |
| This future state experience a small civil war in 1856 | Kansas |
| The National Guard was called here to facilitate school integration in 1957. | Arkansas |
| The Comstock Lode is in this state | Nevada |
| This area separated from an existing state in 1863 | West Virginia |
| This became the first stae in the Northweas Territory to become a state. | Ohio |
| The House of Burgesses sits in this state. | Virginia |
| The line implied in "Fifty-four forty or fight!" is the southern boarder of which state? | Oregon |
| The Treaty of Portsmouth was signed here. | New Hampshire |
| John Brown's famous raid at Harper's Ferry was in this state. | Virginia |
| Fort Sumter is located in this state. | South Carolina |
| The conferance to tarts the United Nations was held in this state. | California |
| This was the first colony to grant complete freedom of worship and separation of church and state | Rhode Island |
| This colony passed an Act of Tolerance in 1649 | Maryland |
| This state was the site of ther Homestead Strike. | Pennsylvania |
| Most of the Gadsden Purchase is in this state. | Arizona |
| This state is the location of Wounded Knee | South Dakota |
| These four border states remained loyal to the Union | Missouri, Arkansas, Maryland, Delaware |
| Seward's Folly referred to this area. | Alaska |
| This was the site of the attack on Pearl Harbor | Hawaii |
| The Battle of Gettysburg took place here | Pennsylvania |
| The Webster-Ashburton Treaty established the boarder of this easter state. | Maine |
| Tuskegee Institue is located here. | Alabama |
| The Mexican Cession included all of these four states | California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona |
| The area known as Watts is located in a large city in this state. | California |
| The Potawatomie Massacre took place here. | Missouri |
| This state's Progressive govenor madeit "the labratory of democracy" and model for others interested in reform. | Wisconsin |
| The Oregon compromise set the northern border of these two states | Washington & Idaho |