The document provides brief facts about various US states. It includes 3 or fewer facts about Nevada, California, New York, Hawaii, Arizona, New Jersey, Texas, Utah, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania. The facts cover a range of topics including history, geography, culture, and notable people/events from each state.

1. 50 states
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2. Nevada
• The Native Indians of • 1843 - The First wagon
Nevada were the were trains led by Joseph
the Koso, Paiute, Walker cross the Sierra
Panamint, Pueblo, • 1847 - Mormons move
Shoshoni and Ute tribes to Salt Lake Valley
• First explored by the
Spanish
• 1826 - Jeddah Smith
(1799-1831) leads
expedition to Meadow
Valley Wash, Nevada

3. California
• California was first • 1545 - The Europeans
explored by the Spanish bring typhus to California
• 1535 - Hernando Cortes and the epidemic kills
leads an expedition to La hundreds of thousands of
Paz and opens a small natives
colony • 1539 - Francisco de Ulla
• 1579 - The great British explores the gulf of
sailor, Sir Francis Drake, California
lands north of San
Francisco Bay and claims
the territory for England
but the land is taken by
the Spanish

4. new York
• 1600 - European settlers • 1857 - Joseph Gayety of
who brought seeds to New York City invented
New York introduced toilet paper.
apples in the 1600s. • 1848 - First women's
• 1747 - The oldest cattle rights convention met at
ranch in the US was Seneca Falls.
started at Montauk on
Long Island.
• 1876 - First Boy's Club
was established in New
York City.

5. Hawaii
• 18.Day biting mosquitoes
• During the Hawaiian first arrived in Hawaii in
Monarchy, Hawaii's 1872 as stowaways aboard
population was among the a merchant ship, bringing
most literate in the world. with them new diseases
• •Hawaii is considered the such as malaria and the
nation's (USA) endangered plague.
species capitol.
• 6.Hawaii has two official • 19.Hawaii is America’s
languages, Hawaiian and youngest state, entering the
English, though Pidgin, nation on August 21, 1959.
Samoan, and Tongan are
also spoken.

6. Arizona
• 2.The Arizona trout is • Arizona is a right-to-work
found only in the Arizona. state. The law states no
• 4.Arizona leads the nation person shall be denied
in copper production. the opportunity to obtain
• 5.Petrified wood is the or retain employment
official state fossil. Most because of non-
petrified wood comes membership in a labor
from the Petrified Forest organization.
in northeastern Arizona. • Arizona is home of the
Grand Canyon National
Park.

7. New jersey
• New Jersey is the only • New Jersey is home to
state where all its the Miss America pageant
counties are classified as held in Atlantic City.
metropolitan areas. • 19.Atlantic City is where
• New Jersey has the most the street names came
dense system of highways from for the game
and railroads in the U.S. monopoly
• New Jersey is a major
seaport state with the
largest seaport in the U.S.
located in Elizabeth.

8. Texas
• The Texas state capitol • The world's biggest
building in Austin is taller Roadrunner is Pisano
than the United States Pete. The 11-foot tall and
capitol building in 20-foot long roadrunner
Washington, D.C. graces the corner of Main
• Biggest Chicken-Fried Street and Hwy 290 in
Steaks in the World Fort Stockton, Texas.
• Largest State Fair is the • The deepest hole ever
Texas State Fair located in made in the world is in
Big "D" (Dallas to all you Texas. It is as deep as 20
Yankees!) on a whopping empire state buildings but
50 acres at Fair Park only 3 inches wide.

9. Utah
• Levan, is "navel" spelled • Rainbow Bridge, Nature's
backwards. It is so named abstract sculpture carved
because it is in the middle of solid sandstone, is the
of Utah world's largest natural-
• The average snowfall in rock span. It stands 278
the mountains near Salt feet wide and 309 feet
Lake City is 500 inches. high.
• Salt Lake City was
originally named Great • 13.State animal: The
Salt Lake City. Great was Rocky Mountain Elk.
dropped from the name
in 1868.

10. Oklahoma
• 34.Oklahoma's four • 36.Oklahoma was the
mountain ranges include setting for the movie
the Ouachita's, "Twister".
Arbuckle's, Wichita's and • 44.Oklahoma has more
the Kiamichi's. man-made lakes than any
• 27.Garth Brooks was born other state, with over one
in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He million surface acres of
grew up in Yukon, water
Oklahoma.
• 23.Tahlequah, Oklahoma
is the Tribal capital of the
Cherokee Nation.

11. Pennsylvania
• Pennsylvania is the first • In 1913 the first
state of the fifty United automobile service
States to list their web station opened in
site URL on a license Pittsburgh.
plate. • In 1946 Philadelphia
• In 1909 the first became home to the
baseball stadium was first computer.
built in Pittsburgh.
• Hershey is considered
the Chocolate Capital of
the United States