It is not definitively known how or when Native Americans first settled the Americas and the present-day United States. The prevailing theory proposes that people from See more

Lead-up to the Revolution
An upper class emerged in South Carolina and Virginia, with wealth based on large plantations operated … See more

Second Party System
After the First Party System of Federalists and Republicans withered away in the 1820s, the stage … See more

After Reconstruction
The "Gilded Age" was a term that Mark Twain used to describe the period of the late 19th century … See more

Norse exploration
The earliest recorded European mention of America is in a historical treatise by the medieval chronicler Adam of Bremen, circa 1075, where it is … See more

President George Washington
George Washington became the first president of the United States under the new Constitution in 1789. The national capital moved from New York to Philadelphia in 1790 and finally settled in Washington, D.C., … See more

Divisions between North and South
The central issue after 1848 was the expansion of slavery, with the anti-slavery elements in the North pitted against the pro-slavery … See more