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In 2007, US Congressman Alce Hastings introduced a bill to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the first use of the name " America " with the support of the Congressional Black Caucus, the Organizing Committee and mayors in fifty states to champion the national strategy " Bring Home The Spirit of History in your town ".

Riccardo Gaudino, historian for the America500 Birthday Extravaganza Movement ( 2007 – 12 ) led the campaign for Who Named America?

National Youth Literacy for the 21st Century.

The resolution passed unanimously on July 11, 2007.

Youth requested mayors and governors to issue Who Named America?

proclamations for celebrating the " 500th Birthday of the naming of America " in earth science to energize youth thirst for knowledge.

The cartographer Martin Waldseemuller's print of the globe map resulted in many " firsts " in geography.

It was the first projection of earth to depict a new land mass not of Africa and Asia, and a new western ocean ( known now as the Pacific ).

The Vision of America500 Birthday Extravaganza 2008-12 was inspired to explore humanity's spirit of ingenuity by celebrating a community story to open local windows to worldwide origins.

US mayors & governors proclaimed April " World Geography Month " to energize learning of Waldseemuller globe map, said to have been printed on April 25, 1507, and share new insight into the birth of the word " America " as a milestone in the rise of planetary science.