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Alaska was named after the Aleut word Aliaskha.Now people made the land into Alaska.

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Ohio was named by when the French was told by the Iroquois that there was a river that would lead them to China.The river was called O-Y-O which means Great River.

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The Spaniard arrived in the spring and was so overwhelmed by all of the beautiful
and colorful blooming flowers that he named  the land La Florida

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Oregon was named after... People don't know how Oregon get their name but people think it's named after the Mighty Ouragon River west of the Rocky Mountains.

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Arkansas got its name from an American group that lived west of the Mississippi River.

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Hawaii got it's name from in the past. According to an old story, Hawaii was named after a Polynesian chief named Hawai'i-Loa.

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Minnesota was named after the sky-tinted water.

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Californian name came from Spain cause people who lived there were called californios.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Arizona was named after alehzon which means place of small spring.

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Missouri was named by explorers and settlers that came into the region.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Texas was named after a language that people spoke and the main  word was Tejas .

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New York was named by a gift from King Charles the second to his brother that sailed four ships carrying 450 men and forced the Dutch to surrender the city and colony.That's when the renamed New York.They named it after the Duke of York.

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King Charles 1 granted Robert Health a region.He named it Carolana (which means Charles).When King Charles 2 came,he changed it to South Carolina and North Carolina.🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Rhode Island was named after a 1️⃣5️⃣2️⃣4️⃣ Italian explorer named Giovanni da Verrazzano spotted a triangle-shaped island in the Atlantic Ocean,about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the main land. He thought the small spot of land looked like Rhodes, an island that is part of  Greece. Just over a century later, English colonists came to the region Varrazzano had explored.They called their new home Rhode Island ,thinking it was the island Varrazzano had seen.😄😄🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺

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Colorado got it's name from the red mud in it's rushing river water. In 1540 some troops called the river they saw Colorado which is Spanish for ruddy or reddish.That is how Colorado got its name.

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Connecticut's name came from a Indian name they called Quinnehtukqut! it means" Beside the long river!"

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Tennessee's name came from a river called Tanasi. We don't know what Tanasi means. Some people think it means river with big bend.

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William Penn arrived in Pennsylvania (1682) to start a new colony, Pennsylvania had forests covering much of the land. Penn suggested the land be called Slyvania (From the English word sylvan, which means "wooded,"). King Charles the II of England had wanted to honor Penn's father, (Admiral William Penn,) so he combined Penn and Sylvania. The combined word, (Pennsylvania,) means "Penn's Woods."

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Nevada means snow-covered in Spanish in 1776 this guy named
Padre Pedro was going to California and he found snowy mountains in Nevada and he called them Sierra Nevada witch is Spanish for snowy-covered mountains.

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Kansas was named when the first Europeans met the Native Americans who called themselves the Kanza Indians. When it became a state it was spelled Kansas. In the Kaw language it means "wind people."

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Oklahoma was named after the " Cocktaw language."Ukla means people.Huma means red.That is the color of the state.The state name is after Allen Wright. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸