1. Kentucky

2. Kentucky Commonwealth
Political system where power lies with its citizens

3. Kentucky
15th state
Became a state in 1792

4. Kentucky State bird State flower State mammal State fish Cardinal
Goldenrod
State mammal
Gray squirrel
State fish
bass

5. Kentucky State Song ‘My Old Kentucky Home’ Composed by Stephen Foster

6. Kentucky
Nickname
Bluegrass State

7. Kentucky’s 3 Natural Wonders
Mammoth Cave
Longest cave in the world.
150 miles of cave
Made of limestone

8. Kentucky’s 3 Natural Wonders
Natural Bridge

9. Kentucky’s 3 Natural Wonders
Cumberland Falls
125 feet wide
Moonbow- occurs when the mist rises above the falls in the light of a full moon and creates something similar to a rainbow

10. Kentucky Cumberland Gap
The only way through the Appalachian Mountains from Virginia into Kentucky during the days of early settlement.
Borders Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee.

11. Famous Kentuckians Daniel Boone
Born in Pennsylvania on November 2, 1734
Early pioneer who discovered the Wilderness Road that took American settlers through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky in 1769.
Settled Boonesborough, KY in 1777.
Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

12. Famous Kentuckians Henry Clay From Hanover County, VA
Interested in KY Politics and emancipating slaves
Elected to Kentucky Legislature in 1803
Served in the United States Senate and as Speaker of the House in the House of Representatives.
Known as ‘The Great Compromiser’
Responsible for Missouri Compromise (created border for free states and slave states) and the Compromise of (CA would be free state and Washington DC wouldn’t be allow to sell slaves)
“Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.”

13. Abraham Lincoln 16th president Born in Knobb Creek, KY
President during the Civil War
Wanted to preserve (keep) the Union
Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation
Freed all slaves in the United States
Wrote the Gettysburg Address
Speech to honor soldiers killed during the Battle of Gettysburg
Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth while watching a play in the Ford Theatre.
“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

15. Kentucky Derby First Saturday in May
Most famous Horse Race in the world!

16. Kentucky's Geographical Regions
Eastern Mountains and Coal Fields
Includes the Daniel Boone National Forest
Contains mountains, valleys, and plateaus
Natural Bridge is located in this region

17. Kentucky’s Geographical Regions
Western Coal Fields
Soft rolling hills
Large coal deposits
Rich soil for farming

18. Kentucky’s Geographical Regions
Bluegrass
Gently rolling hills and fertile land
Lexington, Louisville, and Frankfort are all located in this region.

19. Kentucky’s Geographical Regions
The Knobs
Cone shape hills not tall enough to be mountains
Smallest of the Kentucky regions
Abraham Lincoln birthplace and My Old Kentucky Home are located in this region.

20. Kentucky’s Geographical Regions
The Pennyroyal
Named after a small herb that grows all over the region, the pennyroyal.
Land has gentle rolling hills and flat land with no trees.
Also contains Mammoth Cave

21. Kentucky’s Geographical Regions
Jackson Purchase
Three borders formed by water: Ohio River, Mississippi River, and Kentucky Lake.
Rich land for farming and low hills
Kentucky bought this land from the Chickasaw Indians in 1792.

22. Greatest State Ever!! 