Coronado found the Anasazi people, farmers who built their homes in walls of cliffs
What is New Mexico?
100
General Custer's defeat by the Sioux and Cheyenne
What is Montana?
200
Boston Tea Party, where patriots protested a tax on tea
What is Massachusetts?
200
discovery and naming of this state by Ponce de Leon
What is Florida?
200
Chief Black Hawk had to give up part of this state's land to white settlers in what is known as the Black Hawk Purchase
What is Iowa?
200
Spanish priest name Marcos de Niza was first European to explore this state; United States gained this state from Mexico after the Mexican War
What is Arizona?
200
Pikes Peak
What is Colorado?
300
Statue of Liberty, a gift from France and a symbol of America's Freedom
What is New York?
300
first permanent English settlement at Jamestown
What is Virginia?
300
Mayo Clinic, located in this state, is one of the world's foremost medical research centers
What is Minnesota?
300
many died here defending the Alamo from the Mexican army; Mexican army was defeated at the Battle of San Jacinto; became an independent republic
What is Texas?
300
trans- Alaska pipeline
What is Alaska?
400
settlers from the Netherlands
What is Delaware?
400
Daniel Boone's exploration through the Cumberland Gap
What is Kentucky?
400
General Custer's soldiers discovered gold in the Black Hills of this state; Hundreds of Sioux were killed at Wounded Knee Creek after the U.S. Army arrested their leader, Sitting Bull, in this state
What is South Dakota?
400
this state was originally set aside as Indian Territory
What is Oklahoma?
400
Hupa and Yurok, skilled woodworkers
What is California?
500
Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution
What is Pennsylvania?
500
end of the American Revolution at Yorktown, where Lord Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington; end of the Civil War at Appomattox Court House
What is Virginia?
500
Supreme Court decided that Dred Scott, a slave from this state, could not have his freedom; this state joined the US as a slave state as a result of a compromise
What is Missouri?
500
Trail of Tears was the journey of Native Americans from other states to this state