Usa capital name

  1. United States Capitol
  2. When and Why Was the United States Capital Moved to Washington DC?
  3. The U.S.: State Capitals
  4. California
  5. How did Washington, D.C., get its name?
  6. US Capitals Map Quiz
  7. A virtual travel to the 50 States of America


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United States Capitol

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When and Why Was the United States Capital Moved to Washington DC?

When George Washington became the first US president in 1789, the capital city of the United States was New York. By 1792 when he was re-elected for his second term, the capital district had moved to Philadelphia. Philadelphia remained the capital for ten years. Before becoming the capital, Philadelphia had been the country’s hub and home to the house of Congress until 1783 when the Pennsylvania mutiny forced the Congress to move. How and When Did New York Become the First Capital City? By 1783 the federal government had no funds, and it had not paid the federal soldiers who fought in the British-American war. Therefore, on June 1783, the Congress met in the present day Independence Hall in Philadelphia to deliberate on various pressing issues affecting the federal government including the lack of funds to pay the federal soldiers. In response, the frustrated and unpaid Lancaster Pennsylvania soldiers marched to Philadelphia to join their comrades and went to Congress and blocked the building’s door. After being locked out of the building, the Congress members sent Hamilton to negotiate with them. Alexander Hamilton met with their committee that evening and sent a note to the government of Pennsylvania asking for their militia to protect the lawmakers. Pennsylvania refused to offer their protection and fearing for their safety congress relocated to Princeton. From 1783 to the 1790s, the law-makers met in different cities including Trenton, Maryland, New Jersey, and finally...

The U.S.: State Capitals

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California

The fluid nature of the state’s social, economic, and political life—shaped so largely by the influx of people from other states and countries—has for centuries made California a laboratory for testing new modes of living. California’s population, concentrated mostly along the coast, is the most urban in the United States, with more than three-fourths of the state’s people living in the Land Relief Southern California’s dense settlement lies along a coastal plateau and in valleys ranging from about 10 to 60 miles (16 to 100 km) inland. Along the coast north of the Tehachapi Mountains, the population becomes sparser, though the central coastal region has grown rapidly since the 1990s. The populous coastal area around San Francisco Bay gives way to the less-developed northern coast, where lumbering and fishing villages lie beside creeks and rivers flowing from the Coast Ranges. This is the area of coastal

How did Washington, D.C., get its name?

Before Washington, D.C., became America’s capital in 1800, the Congress met in a number of different locations, including Baltimore, Trenton and New York City. After years of debate by the new nation’s leaders about the selection of a permanent seat of government, Congress passed the Residence Act in July 1790, which declared that the capital would be situated somewhere along the Potomac River and granted President George Washington the power to choose the final site. The president also was given the authority to appoint three commissioners to oversee the federal city’s development, and a deadline of December 1800 was established for the completion of a legislative hall for Congress and residence for the chief executive. In January 1791, George Washington announced his choice for the federal district: 100 square miles of land ceded by Maryland and Virginia (in 1846, the Virginia land was returned to the state, shrinking the district by a third). In September 1791, the commissioners named the federal city in honor of Washington and dubbed the district in which it was located the Territory of Columbia. The name Columbia, derived from explorer Christopher Columbus, was used during the American Revolution era as a patriotic reference for the United States (In 1871, the Territory of Columbia officially was renamed District of Columbia.) Meanwhile, in the spring of 1791, the president hired French-born architect and engineer Pierre Charles L’Enfant to lay out the capital city. L...

US Capitals Map Quiz

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A virtual travel to the 50 States of America

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • States and Capitals of the USA States and Capitals of the USA Official sites of the U.S. States, their capital cities as well as travel and tourism guides, newspapers and other information like state symbols, history, etc. Mount McKinley, the native Athabaskan people know it as Denali, is the highest mountain in North America, with 6,194 m (20,320 ft). The mountain is located in the Alaska Mountain Range, within the Denali National Park, Alaska. Denali can be reached by Highway 3. United State Maps Free Map of the United States. Free map with national and states borders. Maps of particular U.S. states you will find listed in the respective state entry below. Note: External links will open in a new browser window. Bookmark/share this page Official web sites of the US States Alabama, AL The Cotton State or the Heart of Dixie Alabama is located in the south eastern part of the USA, with the Gulf of Mexico forming part of its southern boundary. Alabama takes its name from an Indian tribe that was a division of the Creek Indians. It was admitted to the United States as the 22nd state in 1819. State of Alabama The State of Alabama's Official Web Site. Capital City: Montgomery The City of Montgomery. Maps Reference map of the state. More about the state capital with a searchable map and satellite view. Alabama News With all the news, sports and events in Birmingham, Alabama. Informativ...