The Trail of Tears was the forced migration of Native Americans from their ancestral homes in the Southeastern United States to designated “Indian Territory” west of the Mississippi River.
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address helped to explain why the Civil War was crucial to the nation’s survival.
Prohibition was the name of the era when alcohol consumption was illegal in the U.S.
On a hazy summer morning on June 25, 1876, General George Armstrong Custer and 7th Cavalry (more than 600 men), enter the Little Bighorn Valley in Montana. Custer and his men had been sent to confront the Native American Sioux and Lakota tribes that were led by Chief Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.
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