During the War of 1812, or the “second war of independence,” the United States, which consisted of eighteen loosely joined states, took on Great Britain, the greatest naval power in

The American Revolutionary War was an event that changed the path of nations. The birth of the United States of America signaled a deadly struggle that cost the lives of

The thousands of settlers that came to America before the formation of the United States brought with them their own religious beliefs. Some came for religious freedom, like the Puritans

To escape religious persecution in England a small group of Pilgrims journeyed across a dangerous sea to start the Plymouth Colony in the early seventeenth century. A decade later hundreds

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The first permanent English colony established in North America was at Jamestown, Virginia. The English settlers faced a harsh world of hostile natives, rampant diseases, an epic drought, and the

George Washington was many things to the early republic of the United States, including hero of the American Revolutionary War, President of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and first President