Rising temperatures after the last Ice Age led a once barren landscape to flourish with life. The great plains people followed an estimated 30 million buffalo into the region, practiced ceremonial dance and created languages for cross-tribe communication.

The battles of Lexington and Concord are recognized as the first military engagement of the Revolutionary War as the Redcoats attempted to seize the Patriot’s military supplies, the shot heard ’round the world changed the trajectory of American History.

On April 18th, 1775, Paul Revere and William Dawes were dispatched to spread the news of a British order to seize the patriot’s military supplies, the final spark that lit the revolutionary war.

Native Americans did play a role in the Revolutionary War, divided by tribal support of loyalist and patriot sympathies, ultimately losing their exclusive western settlements with the Treaty of Paris in 1783.

As the gold rush brought a steady inflow of white settlers, the California Genocide was a period of racially driven arrest, enslavement, and murder of thousands of native Californians between 1846 and 1873.

The Revolutionary War led residents in America to choose sides in a loyalist vs patriot division. 20% of Americans fought or sided with the British, while 30 to 40% were Patriots, and the remaining were neutral.

The 13th Amendment was passed by Abraham Lincoln’s Republican party on January 31st, 1865. The Amendment formally abolished slavery under federal law.