Having no European contemporaries to emulate a democracy around, the founding fathers looked to Native American governance for ideas, most notably the structure of the Iroquois Confederacy.

The Whig Party was a short-lived political party rising to power in the United States in 1834 and affiliations included Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, and Abraham Lincoln.

The Founding Fathers’ early split into two opposing political parties culminated in the Election of 1800 with the Federalist incumbent John Adams against Republican Thomas Jefferson.

The Opelousas Massacre was a politically-charged racist attack on Black residents and republicans in Louisiana in 1868, resulting in the deaths of more than 250 people, mostly African Americans.

As manifest destiny pushed the American sense of entitlement further west, John Fremont entered California inspired by the Republic of Texas and seized an opportunity in Sonoma County, leading to the Bear Flag Revolt of 1845.

An ongoing refusal to increase USPS pay led to a boiling point when Congress proposed a 41% pay increase for themselves and a 5.4% increase for postal workers; resulting in the great postal strike of 1970, the largest walkout of federal employees in U.S. history.

As superpower nations vied for outposts in the Americas, the English King James I chartered another attempt to colonize North America, which resulted in the Jamestown Colony being settled on May 13th, 1607.