If any boat carrying troops refused to stop, the state soldiers were to sink it and seize the fort.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

Washington,D.C. is the country's capital but it is a city,not a state, so it does not have its own star.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

It is in the eastern part of the state, not far from the border with the state of Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

It said the president could send troops into a state to help federal marshals enforce the rulings of federal courts.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

The eastern state of Vermont is proud of its beautiful Green Mountains so it calls itself the Green Mountain State.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

The legislature would have the power to keep the territory open to slavery and,in time,help it become a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

It provides that no state may "deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law ."

VOA: special.2010.03.05

It got its nickname, The Garden State, because New Jersey truck farms once provided vegetables to those big cities.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

And some people dream about being somewhere else where it is warm and pretty - like the state of California.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

And it said each southern state must approve an amendment to the United States Constitution that gave citizenship to blacks.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

State lawmakers in California are considering a bill that would make it illegal for people to have,sell or distribute shark fins.

VOA: special.2011.03.15

If you visit the western mountain and plains state of Montana you will know why it is known as Big Sky Country.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

Little Delaware is called the First State because it was the first state the first to approve the new United States Constitution.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

It did say,however, that any state wishing to return to the Union could do so without losing any of its constitutional rights.

VOA: special.2009.12.10