Category: Countries

California is a state in the Western United States. What is now California was first settled by various Native Californian tribes before being explored by a number of Europeans during the 16th and 17th centuries. The Spanish Empire then claimed and colonized it. In 1804, it was included in Alta…

Nebraska is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Nebraska was admitted into the United States in 1867, two years after the end of the American Civil War. The Nebraska Legislature is unlike any other American legislature in that it is unicameral, and its members are elected…

Minnesota is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. It is known as the “Land of 10,000 Lakes”. Its official motto is L’Étoile du Nord, French for “The Star of the North”. Minnesota has been inhabited by various indigenous peoples since the Woodland period of the 11th century BCE.…

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and upper Midwestern United States. Its name comes from the Ojibwe word meaning “large water” or “large lake”. The area was first occupied by a succession of Native American tribes over thousands of years. Inhabited by Natives, Métis, and French explorers in…

Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is rooted in the Watauga Association, a 1772 frontier pact generally regarded as the first constitutional government west of the Appalachian Mountains. The state’s name is derived from “Tanasi”, a Cherokee town…

Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Originally home to many native tribes, present-day Alabama was a Spanish territory beginning in the sixteenth century until the French acquired it in the early eighteenth century, founding Mobile in 1702. The British won the territory in 1763 until…