State of Rhode Island Posters, Prints, Photographs, Calendars
for educators and home schoolers, themed decor in studio or office.

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Rhode Island Red, Art Print

Rhode Island Red, a breed of chicken, is the Rhode Island State Bird.

The Rhode Island Red is an icon in the farmer's yard, a hardy bird providing both meat and eggs.

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Violets, Giclee Print

Violet
State flower of Rhode Island, also Illinois, New Jersey, Wisconsin

Violets are native perennial plants with broad, heart-shaped leaves and usually dark blue flowers. Violets are native to the eastern US and Canada and prefer damp woods and meadows; in lawns they are considered weeds. Have you ever had candied violets?

Red Maple, Art Print

Red Maple
State tree of Rhode Island.

The Red Maple is a common and widespread deciduous tree in eastern North America. Its sap is not as sweet as the Sugar Maple.

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Striped Bass Fish Giclee Print

The Rhode Island State Fish is the Striped Bass. It is also the is the state fish of Maryland, South Carolina, and the state saltwater (marine) fish of New York, Virginia, and New Hampshire. The Striped Bass is anadronous, living in both salt and fresh water.

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Native American Cultures - Northeast Poster

Northeast Native American Cultures -
The northeastern part of the U.S. and Canada includes coastal lands, rivers, the Great Lakes, valleys and mountains. before the arrival of European settlers, this region was mostly one vast forest. In these woodlands teeming with deer, bear, rabbit, and other animals, most of the Indians were hunters and gatherers. They also fished in the lakes and rivers. In wet marshy areas Indians gathered wild rice. And in the summer, some tribes planted crops of corn, squash, and beans. ... • more Native American Cultures posters

Giovanni da Verrazano
b. c. 1485; Tuscany
d. c. 1528; on third voyage to New World

The Italian navigator Giovanni Verrazano made the first verifiable visit to Rhode Island by a European in 1524. Verrazano described an island “in the form of a triangle, distant from the mainland ten leagues, about the bigness of the Island of Rhodes” thus the first part of state's name. The bridge crossing the “narrows”, a tidal strait connecting the upper and lower sections of the New York Bay, is named for Verrazzano.

New England Colonies - 1650

Poster Text: During the first half of the 17th century, thousands of English families creossed the Atlantic Ocean to escape the hardships of living in England, They were fleeing religious persecution and strict rule of King James I and, later, his son Charles I. Both believed in the "divine rights of kings" and ruled with absolute power. And both kings threatened anyone who questioned their authority or the power of the English church. Unhappy with their life in England, many families chose to make the dangerous journey across the Arlantic to the New World, where they hoped to find peace and religious freedom. Although life in the rugged New England wilderness was hard, families created strong communities there. Men hunted, cleared the land, built homes, and formed churches. And women, often with the help of their children, grew vegetables, dried fish, and raised animals for food and clothing, By 1650, New England was the richest region in the colonies.

Two groups of English Protestant settled in New England, where they hoped to establish their own churches and live freely according to their religious beliefs. The Pilgrims broke from the Church of England in 1607. They traveled on the Mayflower in search of a safe home for their religious community, landing in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in December of 1620. Because they had separated completely from the English church, the Pilgrims were also called "Separatists." The second group was the Puritans. Unlike the Pilgrims, the Puritans had not split completely from the Church of England. The strong faith of both the Pilgrims and the Puritans helped them survive outbreaks of disease and the harsh New England winters. But life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony was not always peaceful. big arguments, usually about religion, forced some people to move from Massachusetts and set up their own settlements elsewhere. These settlements eventually became the remaining New England colonies of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire.

Native Americans helped the early New England colonists survive. They taught the new settlers many necessary skills, such as how to build animal traps, use fish heads for fertilizer, and construct birch bark canoes. Indians also introduced the settlers to many important foods, including corn, potatoes, tomatoes, pumpkins, and beans, The colonists traded with the Indians, exchanging tools, pots, guns, and horses for animal fur. But conflicts between the Indians an settlers grew as more and more settlers arrived, forcing native tribes to move from their land. These conflicts would explode over the next 250 years.

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Roger Williams
b. 12-21-1603; London, England
d. 4-1-1684; Rhode Island

Roger Williams was the founder of the city of Providence, RI and co-founder of the colony of Rhode Island. Williams was a theologian, a notable advocate of the separation of Church and State (the phrase “wall of separation” is attributed to Williams), and a fair dealer with Native Americans.

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June 9, 1772 - The British ship Gaspee was burned to the waterline and its commander shot in an early incident of rebellion.

Continental Rhode Island Infantry 1782 - 1796 Art Print

Continental Rhode Island Infantry 1782 - 1796

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