Rhode Island, RI
Rhode Island, official name State of Rhode
Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in
the New England region of the northeastern
United States of America.
It is the smallest state by area, and the 8th
smallest by population.
Its official name is the longest official name
of any U.S. state. Rhode Island was the first of
the thirteen original American colonies to
declare independence from British rule,
signaling the start of the American Revolution;
it was also the first state that engaged in
armed hostilities with British property and
authorities. Rhode Island did not participate in
the Philadelphia Convention and was also the
last of the original thirteen states to ratify
the United States Constitution.
Despite its name, most of the state of Rhode
Island lies on the North American mainland.
Providence Plantations refers to the mainland,
while Rhode Island was the 17th and 18th century
name for Aquidneck Island (now composed of the
city of Newport, and the towns of Middletown and
Portsmouth).
Rhode Island has long held the nickname of
"Little Rhody", though the state has officially
adopted the nickname of "the Ocean State," as
nearly one tenth of Rhode Island's inland area
is covered by salt water, and no part of the
state is more than a 45-minute drive from the
water's edge.
Origin of the name
In 1524, Italian navigator, Giovanni da
Verrazzano was the first European to visit any
part of what is now Rhode Island.
He came to what is now Block Island and named it
"Luisa" after Louise of Savoy, Queen Mother of
France. Verrazzano described Luisa as "about the
size of the Island of Rhodes".
When the founders of the Colony of Rhode Island
and Providence Plantations surveyed the land,
they thought that Aquidneck Island was the
place.
A
mistake occurred in 1614, when Luisa was charted
by the Dutch explorer Adriaen Block, after whom
Luisa was renamed by the Dutch West India
Company; however, their motives in doing so are
unknown.
The official explanation by the State of Rhode
Island is that Adriaen Block named the area "Roodt
Eylandt" meaning "red island" in reference to
the red clay that lined the shore, and that the
name was later anglicized when the region came
under British rule.
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It uses material from the
Wikipedia
article "Rhode Island".
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