New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland
Dec 18, 2015
Mid-Atlantic States:
New YorkNew Jersey
PennsylvaniaDelawareMaryland
New York
Capital: Albany
11th State admitted to Union, July 26, 1788
State motto: Excelsior (meaning “Ever upward.”)
State bird: Eastern Bluebird
State flower: Rose
Colonial HistoryHudson river named after explorer Henry Hudson
Dutch East India Company claimed his discoveries and began to profit in the fur trade
Dutch place names survive:
Brooklyn (Breukelen)Wall Street (Walstraat)the Bronx (Jonas Bronck
English captured Dutch colony with little resistance.
English Renamed Dutch cities New York and Albany after English places.
King Charles was Duke of York and of Albany before he was king
The Big AppleClockwise, from top:
•Midtown Manhattan
•Times Square
•the Unisphere in Queens
•Brooklyn Bridge
•Lower Manhattan & One World Trade Center
•Central Park
•United Nations HQ,
•the Statue of Liberty
New JerseyCapital: Trenton
Third state admitted to Union: December 18, 1787
Motto: Liberty and Prosperity
State bird: Eastern Goldfinch
State flower: violet
New Jersey Facts
• Light bulb invented by Edison in Menlo Park, NJ.
• World’s1st complete dinosaur excavation in Haddonfield, 1858.
• Atlantic City, NJ gave its street names to the game of Monopoly.
Pennsylvania
2nd state admitted to Union: Dec. 12, 1787
Capital: Harrisburg
Motto: Virtue, Liberty, & Independence
State Bird: Ruffled Grouse
State Flower: Mountain Laurel
Pennsylvania was colonizedby English Quakers and dissenters, who came there with William Penn, after he was given a land grant from Charles II.
Colonial History
Facts about Pennsylvania
Hershey’s chocolate was born in PA
The Declaration of Independence was signed 1776 in Philadelphia
Philadelphia was originally the U.S. capital
Philadelphia is home of the Liberty Bell, the cheese steak, and the soft pretzel
Delaware1st State admitted to Union, December 7, 1787
Capital: Dover
Motto: Liberty and Independence
State bird: Blue Chicken
State flower: Peach blossom
Delaware Originally hosted Dutch and Swedish colonies
New Sweden was the colony formed by the Swedish West India Company
Part of Pennsylvania for a short time
Maryland
7th State: April 28, 1788
Capital: Annapolis
Motto: Fatti maschii, parole femine “Manly deeds, womanly words”
State bird: Baltimore Oriole
State Flower: Black-eyed Susan
In 1629, Cecil Calvert applied for a charter to start a colony in the New World, which was to be a refuge for Catholics, persecuted by the Church of England.
Unlike other colonies, such as Massachusetts and Virginia,Maryland became a haven of religious tolerance.
Maryland Fun Facts•“The Star-Spangled Banner” was written about the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812•King Williams School was the first school opened in the country in 1696•Maryland gave up part of its land to give to Washington DC•Our very own Mr. Morris hails from Maryland!