English Origins
The first president of the United States
What is Washington?
Feast of the Flowers
What is Florida?
French for Green Mountains
What is Vermont?
Choctow for "red person"
What is Oklahoma?
quinnitukqvt - "the long tidal river"
What is Connecticut
Largest Island in the English channel
What is New Jersey?
Red colored (mainly due to the Grand Canyon - think river)
What is the Colorado?
Named after King Louis of France
What is Louisiana?
Aleut for the "object that the sea moves toward"
What is Alaska?
Choctow for "Red Person"
What is Oklahoma?
Named after Thomas Penn "Penn's Land"
What is Pennsylvania?
Snow covered Mountains
What is Nevada?
Named after the Ute tribe "people of the mountains"
Named for the 'Ioway" people
What is IOWA?
Named after the discoverer of these Pacific Islands
What is Hawaii?
Reddish in appearance
What is Rhode Island?
Spanish for Mountain
What is Montana?
Named after the "Virgin" Queen of England
What is Virginia?
People of the wind
What is Kansas?
Land of the Indians
What is Indiana?
The "Main Land"
What is Maine?
The Spanish though this was an Island (it isn't) full of gold.
What is California?
Named after King George of England
What is Georgia?
Meskousing - "it lies red"
What is wisconsin?
Dakota for "cloudy water"
What is Minnesota?