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Parent topics
- Colonial America [r]: The eastern United States and parts of Canada from the time of European settlement to the time of the American Revolution. [e]
- New England [r]: Region of the northeastern USA consisting of the 6 states Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. [e]
- United States of America [r]: Constitutional republic in North America, has major land borders with Mexico and Canada. [e]
Subtopics
Principal cities
- Newport [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Providence [r]: The capital city of Rhode Island and 2nd largest city in New England; population 176,862 as of 2005. [e]
Politics and government
State government
U.S. Senate
- Jack Reed [r]: A U.S. Senator Democrat from Rhode Island, Senate Armed Services Committee; Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; strongly liberal, a former Army Ranger consistently opposed to the Iraq War but supportive of troops; Aspen Strategy Group, Aspen Institute; considered a housing expert [e]
- Sheldon Whitehouse [r]: U.S. Senator (D-Rhode Island); U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary; Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; participant, 2009 White House Forum on Health Reform [e]
U.S. House of Representatives
- Patrick Kennedy [r]: U.S. Representative (D-Rhode Island), U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform; participant, 2009 White House Forum on Health Reform [e]
- Jim Langevin [r]: 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
- Atlantic Ocean [r]: Second largest ocean in the world; separates the Americas from Europe and Africa. [e]
Noteworthy places
- Examples: Hoover Dam
People
- Either native born or important in some way to the state
Federal
- Institutions and installations such as military (West Point), research facilities (Los Alamos), National Paks, Wilderness areas
Rhode Island state history
Associated U.S. states
New England states
- Maine [r]: A State in New England, in the north-east USA. [e]
- New Hampshire [r]: American state in New England on the Canadian border. It also borders Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts and the Atlantic Ocean. [e]
- Vermont [r]: 14th state of the USA [e]
- Massachusetts [r]: A State in the New England region of the north-east USA. [e]
- Connecticut [r]: 5th state of the USA [e]
Native American
- Tribes, reservations, etc
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- American Revolution [r]: The political and military action of the American colonists who overthrew British control between 1763-1789. [e]
- Annie Smith Peck [r]: (1850-1935) A notable scholar, lecturer, and mountaineer, among the first women to scale the world's major peaks. [e]
- Atlantic Ocean [r]: Second largest ocean in the world; separates the Americas from Europe and Africa. [e]
- Bristol County, Massachusetts [r]: Region of the U.S. state of Massachusetts adjacent to the state of Rhode Island, known as "The Bayou", because of the many wetlands that dominate its rural landscape [e]
- Christopher Dodd [r]: U.S. Senator (D-Connecticut}; chair, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Senate Committee on Foreign Relations [e]
- Clarence Earl Gideon [r]: The petitioner/defendant in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, decided in 1963, establishing the right to counsel protected by the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution. [e]
- Connecticut [r]: 5th state of the USA [e]
- Declaration of Independence [r]: Document formally declaring the independence of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain, July 4, 1776. [e]
- Gaspee Affair [r]: Add brief definition or description
- History of neuroimaging [r]: The development of techniques allowing to visualize brain structure and function. [e]
- John Tyler [r]: (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) A United States politician and the tenth President of the United States (1841-1845). [e]
- Massachusetts, history [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Massachusetts [r]: A State in the New England region of the north-east USA. [e]
- Mile [r]: A non-SI unit of length, equal to 1.609 kilometres, and equivalent to 5,280 feet. [e]
- Nathanael Greene [r]: A general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution; he became one of George Washington's most trusted aides. [e]
- New Bedford, Massachusetts [r]: Add brief definition or description
- North American Great Lakes [r]: There are five large connected Lakes in Eastern North America. [e]
- Prohibition of alcohol, United States [r]: The period, from 1920 to 1933, in which the production, transportation, and distribution of alcohol was banned in the United States. [e]
- Providence Athenaeum [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Quakers [r]: Protestant denomination founded among English Puritans in the 17th century by George Fox and characterized by pacifism and the belief that Christ works directly in the soul of the believer; known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. [e]
- Rhode Island College [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rufus C. Somerby [r]: (c. 1833 - 1903), showman, and panoramist. [e]
- Scallop (animal) [r]: A group of commercially fished, mobile, shellfish with a firm sweet flesh [e]
- Thirteen Colonies [r]: The historical region ranging from the present-day Canadian province of Quebec to the present-day state of Georgia which comprised the thirteen British colonies in North America. [e]
- Thomas Henry Cocroft [r]: An Episcopal priest in Providence, Rhode Island in the late nineteenth century. [e]
- U.S. Constitution [r]: Document that states the fundamental constitutional law of the United States of America. [e]
- U.S. Demographic History [r]: Historic trends in population growth, geographical distribution by states and urban-rural, internal migration, and components of change (births, deaths, immigration), as well as race and ethnicity, and population policy as they relate to the United States. [e]
- U.S. Republican Party [r]: One of two major contemporary political parties in the United States; center-right; the elephant is its symbol. [e]
