Kentucky Studies
Zachary Taylor
(1849-1850), Whig president who was a Southern slave holder, and war hero (Mexican-American War). Won the 1848 election. Surprisingly did not address the issue of slavery at all on his platform. He died during his term and his Vice President was Millard Fillmore.
Simon Kenton
- Frontiersman - Saved the life of Daniel Boone - Shawnee Indians captured and tortured him
Martha Layne Collins
- only Ky female governor - created teachers manual for use in public schools - new education package by increasing teacher pay, reducing class sizes, construction projects and focusing on improvement of poor areas schools - helped improve education through funding and taxes
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)- born in Hardin County Ky
Lake Cumberland, Kentucky Lake
2 major lakes in Kentucky
Fort Knox
A U.S. Army base that includes the Bullion Depository, which holds the nation's gold reserves.
Henry Clay
A northern American politician. He developed the American System as well as negotiated numerous compromises. ( Missouri Compromise) Known as the Great Compromiser)
Regions of Kentucky
Bluegrass, Western Coal Field, Eastern Coalfield, Pennyroyal, Jackson Purchase
Frankfort
Capital of Kentucky
Loretta Lynn (genre, year, about)
Country, 1960 • multiple gold album American country music singer/songwriter; career lasted nearly 60 years; most awarded female country-recording artist- born in Butcher Hollow Kentucky- "A Coal Miner's Daughter"
Dr. Thomas Walker
Discovered the Cumberland Gap
William Floyd Collins
Explorer who died in Mammoth Cave
James Harrod
Frontiersman, Founder of Harrodsburg
Ken-tah-ten
Iroquois work which means "land of tomorrow" - where the word Kentucky originated
Churchill Downs, the site of of famous horse races for more than 125 years, is located in which state- South Dakota or Kentucky?
Kentucky
Green River, Cumberland River, Ohio River, Mississippi River
Kentucky's Major Rivers
Harrodsburg
Kentucky's first permanent settlement
Bluegrass State
Kentucky's nickname
Thunder over Louisville
Largest fireworks display in the world- the opening ceremony for the Kentucky Derby
George Rogers Clark
Leader of a small Patriot force that captured British-controlled Fort Vincennes in the Ohio Valley in 1779., secured the Northwest Territory for America- Founder of Louisville
Man O' War
Most famous race horse of all time- won every race except one to a horse named Upset
Cumberland Falls
People travel to this Kentucky tourist attraction often to be there on certain nights. They often stay at the DuPont Lodge in the state park located there. What is this attraction, often called "the Niagara of the South"?- the only waterfall in the world to regularly display a Moonbow
Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States of America-born in Christian County
John Breckinridge
Senator from Kentucky and V.P. under James Buchanan. An unsuccessful candidate for President in 1860, nominated by the Southern faction of the split Democratic party, losing to Abraham Lincoln but receiving more electoral votes than the other major candidates, John Bell of the Constitutional Union Party, and Stephen A. Douglas, the Northern Democrats' nominee. Breckinridge won the South with his pro-slavery platform, but was unable to win the Border States; received almost no support in the North. Strongly for slavery and states' rights.
"United We Stand, Divided We Fall"
State Motto
Black Mountain
Tallest summit in Kentucky. Located in Harlan County.
Perryville (Battle of )
The battle here in 1862 was the largest battle ever fought in the state of Kentucky.
Ashland
The name of Henry Clay's estate
Middlesboro, KY
The only city in the United States built within a meteor crater.
Kentucky Derby
This "Run for the Roses" traditionally occurs on the first Saturday in May. Which race held in Louisville, Kentucky, is the first leg of horse racing's Triple Crown- oldest annual horse race in the United States.
Lake Barkley
This is a reservoir in southwestern Kentucky that is created by a dam of the same name on the Cumberland River. It extends into Tennessee, and along with another lake to its west, it makes the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area.
limestone
a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals- more than 50% of Kentucky's rocks are made of this
Muhammad Ali
born Cassisus Marcellus Clay Jr. in Louisville (1942) nicknamed "The Greatest" - he was a professional boxer and he won a gold medal at the 1960 Olympics
Daniel Boone
famous early pioneer who cleared Wilderness Road, a new route to the west. Wilderness Road became the main route used to cross the Appalachian Mountains
Colonel Harland Sanders
founder of KFC -originated in Corbin, Kentucky (KFC)
Bowling Green, Kentucky
home of the Corvette Factory
Cumberland Gap, why is it significant?
is a low point in the Cumberland Mountains near where the states of Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia all meet. This was the main passage way for the pioneers to get across the steep mountains.
Louisville, KY
largest city in Kentucky
Boonesborough
pioneer settlement in Kentucky named after Daniel Boone
Pike County
the world's largest producer of coal is famous for the Hatfield and McCoy fued.
A.B. "Happy" Chandler
two time governor of Ky- the second commissioner of Major League Baseball
Happy Birthday
was written by two sisters from Louisville KY in 1893
"My Old Kentucky Home"
written by Stephen Foster- Kentucky's state song
