The Republic of Hawaiʻi was a short-lived one-party state in Hawaiʻi between July 4, 1894, when the Provisional Government of Hawaii had ended, and August 12, 1898, when it became annexed by the United States as an organized incorporated territory of the United States. In 1893 the Committee of Public…
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The Provisional Government of Hawaii, abbreviated “P.G.”, was proclaimed after the coup d’état on January 17, 1893, by the 13-member Committee of Safety under the leadership of its chairman Henry E. Cooper and former judge Sanford B. Dole as the designated President of Hawaii. It replaced the Kingdom of Hawaii…
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Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and also known as D.C. or just Washington, is the capital city of the United States. It is located on the Potomac River bordering Maryland and Virginia, with Congress holding its first session there in 1800. The city was named for George Washington,…
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Wyoming is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Original inhabitants of the region include the Arapaho, Crow, Lakota, and Shoshone. Southwest Wyoming was claimed by the Spanish Empire and then as Mexican territory until it was ceded to the U.S. in 1848 at the…
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West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States. West Virginia became a state after the Wheeling Conventions of 1861, at the start of the American Civil War. Delegates from northwestern Virginia’s Unionist counties decided to break away from Virginia, which also included…
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Vermont is a state in the New England region of the United States. For some 12,000 years, indigenous peoples inhabited this area. The historically competitive tribes of the Algonquian-speaking Abenaki and Iroquoian-speaking Mohawk were active in the area at the time of European encounter. During the 17th century, French colonists…
View More United States of America: VermontUtah is a state in the Mountain West sub-region of the Western United States. The territory of modern Utah has been inhabited by various indigenous groups for thousands of years, including the ancient Puebloans, the Navajo and the Ute. The Spanish were the first Europeans to arrive in the mid-16th…
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South Dakota is a U.S. state in the upper Midwestern United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Native American tribes, who comprise a large portion of the population and historically dominated the territory. As the southern part of the former Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a…
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South Carolina is a state in the South eastern region of the United States. South Carolina was named in honor of King Charles I of England, who first formed the English colony, with Carolus being Latin for “Charles”. South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution on May…
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Rhode Island, officially the State of Rhode Island, is a state in the New England region of the United States. The state takes its name from Rhode Island; however, most of the state is on the mainland. On May 4, 1776, the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was…
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