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In the United States of America, the Bill of Rights is the name by which the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution are known.
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The cotton gin was created by the American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793 to mechanize the cleaning of cotton.
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In The Whiskey Rebellion, the government decided to tax whiskey in order to pay off the national debt. This infuriated the citizenry and led to the Whiskey Rebellion.
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The Jay Treaty, was a treaty between the United States and Great Britain which averted war, It solved many issues left over from the American Revolution[
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The Louisiana Purchase was the purchase by the United States of America of 828,800 square miles (2,147,000 km2) of the French territory Louisiana in 1803. The U.S. paid $11,250,000 plus cancellation of debts worth $3,750,000, a total cost of 15 million dollars for the Louisiana territory.
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition was the first overland expedition undertaken by the United States to the Pacific coast and back
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Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat.
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The Erie Canal is a waterway in New York that runs about 363 miles from Albany on the Hudson River to Buffalo at Lake Erie, completing a navigable water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.
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American forces, commanded by General Andrew Jackson, defeated an invading British Army intent on seizing New Orleans and the vast territory America had acquired with the Louisiana Purchase.
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The Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery in Missouri
