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Parent topics
United States of America: a large nation in middle North America with a republic of fifty semi-independent states, a nation since 1776. [e]
Colonial America: The eastern United States and parts of Canada from the time of European settlement to the time of the American Revolution. [e]
Subtopics
Principal cities
- Albany: Capital of the U.S. state of New York, 2.5+ hours travel time from New York City. [e]
- Buffalo: Add brief definition or description
- Elmira: Add brief definition or description
- New York, New York: The largest city in the United States of America and a world center of finance, commerce, communications, and the arts. [e]
- Niagara Falls: Add brief definition or description
Rochester: An economically challenged city in upstate New York, located on the south shore of Lake Ontario [e]- Syracuse: Add brief definition or description
- Utica: A city in upstate New York. [e]
Politics and government
- Hillary Clinton: U.S. Secretary of State (2009-2013); Senator for New York (2001-2009); U.S. presidential candidate for the Democratic Party, 2016 (contender, 2008); former First Lady (born 1947). [e]
State government
U.S. Senate
- Kirsten Gillibrand: U.S. Senator (D-New York), appointed to Hillary Clinton's vacancy; U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations [e]
- Charles Schumer: Add brief definition or description
Social, cultural, and educational
- To include 4 yr colleges and universities, also museums, zoos, etc
Industry and agriculture
- Principal crops and farming-related articles, industrial products, etc
Geographical and geological features
- Adirondack Mountains: Add brief definition or description
- Hudson River: The most important river in New York State. [e]
- Lake Ontario: The eastern-most of the five North American Great Lakes [e]
- Long Island: Island in New York State, U.S., that extends 118 miles northeastward from the western shore of the East River. [e]
- Thousand Islands: An archipelago of islands in the Saint Lawrence River, stretching for approximately 80 kilometres (50 miles) downstream from Kingston, Ontario. [e]
- Lake_Tonawanda: A proglacial lake that existed briefly on the height of the Niagara Escarpment, as the Laurentide glaciation retreated. [e]
Noteworthy places
- Examples: Hoover Dam
People
Joseph Smith, Jr.: (1805 – 1844) American religious leader who founded the Latter Day Saint movement, a restorationist movement giving rise to Mormonism. [e]
Federal
- Fort Drum: U.S. Army base in northern New York State, near the Canadian border, home of the 10th Mountain Division and numerous training facilities for reserve and active forces. [e]
- United States Military Academy: The undergraduate professional college of the United States Army, at West Point, New York [e]
New York state history
- Washington Irving: (1783-1859) American writer, considered the first American man of letters, best known for his short stories, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. [e]
- Rip Van Winkle: Short story by Washington Irving, first published in 1819, about a man who falls asleep and only re-awakens 20 years later to a completely changed world. [e]
Associated U.S. states and Canadian provinces
Native American
- Tribes, reservations, etc
- Railroads in California [r]: A brief history of the network of interconnected independent rail transport systems located throughout the Union's thirty-first state and how they shaped the region's development. [e]
- U.S. commercial aviation history to 1966 [r]: Commercial aviation in America 1918-1966. [e]
- Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938 [r]: A 1938 U.S. law that commissioned a study of superhighways for defense and economic purposes. [e]
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration [r]: The new name given by the Roosevelt Administration to the "Emergency Relief Administration" set up by Herbert Hoover in 1932. [e]