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Established by Thomas Jefferson
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The purchase of the Louisiana territory from France for $15 million.
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The battle was between American soldiers and Native Americans.
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Tecumseh led the war hoping to gain the support of the British in their fight against Americans.
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British troops set fire to Washington D.C. during the War of 1812.
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Andrew Jackson's law giving authority for the federal government to exchange Indian land with land west of the Mississippi.
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Founded by Henry Clay as a protest to Andrew Jackson and the Democrats.
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13 day battle that a small group of Texans fought, and lost, against the Mexican General Santa Anna.
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Sam Houston led a group of Texans against Mexican forces to win Texas Independence.
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First President born after America gained independence from the British.
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The forced relocation of the Cherokee tribes to lands west of the Mississippi in accordance with the Indian Removal Act.
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Westward expansion was a key cause of the war.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel was considered the best selling book of the 19th century.
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Lincoln made an executive order, the Emancipation Proclamation, ending slavery. He was assassinated 42 days into his second term.
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The bloodiest battle in American history with 750,000 killed.
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First battle of the Civil War to take place on Union land, and the single bloodiest day in American history with 22,000 soldiers dead, wounded, or missing.
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A major battle of the Civil War considered Gen. Robert E Lee's greatest victory as he defeated a force nearly twice the size of his army.
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One of the most important battles of all the war and also the bloodiest, resulting in 51,000 casualties.
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President Lincoln approved the proposed amendment permanently abolishing slavery.
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Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse ending the war.
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Lincoln was attending a play Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C
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Given as a gift from France, The statue represents freedom extending to the world.
