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New York Facts
Facts about New York
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History
4th Grade
01/08/2009

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State Name

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New York
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Is New York the 27th or the 28th largest state?

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It is the 27th largest state.
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[image][image]

Was it the ___most populous state?

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third

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 New York hold the firs______ tourtement?[image]
Definition

chess

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In 2005 about ____ languages were spoken in the city and ____% were born outside th USA.

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170 & 36%

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[image]A brewer named ________ founded Vassar Collage in Poughkeepsie in [image]1861.

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Mattew Vassar.
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___________________ is the longest toll road in the United States.[image]

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Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway.
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[image]New Yorks most important [image]farming activity.
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Dairying.
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[image][image]The Woodstock Music and arts fair was held where?

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Bethel.
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[image]In what year  did Clermont made its maiden voyage from New York City to Albany making the vessel the first successful steamboat?
Definition
1807
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[image]New York has how much miles of subway?
Definition
722 miles
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[image][image]The New York Post was held in what year?
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1803.
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[image]The first boy club was established in new York City in  what year?
Definition
1876.
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The Eurapean[image] intruduced what in the 1600s?
Definition
apples.
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[image]Over 6 million people came to where?
Definition
Niagara Falls.
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New Yorks largest lake is where?[image]

Definition
Oneida.
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When was the first boys club established NY?
Definition
1876.
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[image][image]Niagara Reservation was the first what in the US?
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State park.
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[image]Who introduced apples to NY in the 1600's?
Definition
European Settlers.
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NY is home to 58 [image]species of what?
Definition
Wild Orchads.
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State size compared to other states
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27th largest
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Ranking is order of population
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third most populous state
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[image]Tourtament which was first held in NY

Definition
first chess tourtament
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[image]Presidents born in NY
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Martinvan Boren,Millard Fillmore,Theodore Roosavelt, Franklen Roosavelt
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[image]New York  was the first state to require what on cars?

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license plats

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