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!