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The Fifty States

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A few of the words

DELAWARE
Delaware ratified the Constitution on December 7, 1787, making it the first state to do so.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
VERMONT
The name comes from the French for green mountain, vert mont, and the Green Mountains still run down the middle of the state.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
HAWAII
Hawaii became the fiftieth state on August 21, 1959, the last one added.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
FLORIDA
Ponce de León named it in 1513, most likely for the Spanish Easter season, Pascua Florida, the feast of flowers.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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About The Fifty States

Say the names out loud and you can hear the country's layers: Spanish in Nevada and Florida, Native languages in Ohio, Iowa and Alabama, French in Vermont and Oregon's odd, argued-over origins. Most of us learned them in a classroom, chanting along a map, and a few still trip us up (Delaware and Wyoming are the usual suspects). Here they are scattered coast to coast.

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