Benedict Arnold was a heroic Patriot during the Revolutionary War but felt unappreciated and overlooked for his contributions, leading him to negotiate treason with the British in exchange for money and power.

The Zoot Suit was a fashion trend to exaggerate movements and gyrations born during the Harlem Renaissance and quickly adopted by minority groups across the country, culminating in the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943.

The Brooklyn Bridge was built between 1870 and 1883 at a cost of $15.5 million or roughly half a billion in today’s currency. It would cost the lives of 27 men and severely injure many more, paralyzing the chief project engineer and bridge designer’s son.

Leopold and Loeb were intelligent sons of wealthy families in Chicago but decided to use their intellligence to commit a self-described “perfect crime.” Far from perfect, the murder of Bobby Franks was quickly solved, leading to confessions by Leopold and Loeb.

Carpetbaggers and scalawags were both publicly criticized in the south for their part in the post Civil War reconstruction era. Carpetbaggers were northern opportunists looking to fill the slave labor gap and Scalawags were southern whites that supported civil rights.

Yellow Journalism is the strategy deployed by tabloid news magazines and more, Intending to excite public opinion using scare headlines of minor news events, the reliance on pseudoscience data and testimonies from questionable sources.

The Wilmot Proviso was a bill that failed to become law prohibiting slavery in new U.S. territories west of the Mississippi River. Despite its three-time failure to pass, It did successfully provoke a nationwide debate over slavery.