Following American defeats at Charleston and Camden, the Battle of Cowpens served as a morale-boosting victory for the American Patriots during the Revolutionary War.

Early American imperialism was the result of patriotic hubris and a belief in manifest destiny, leading to military conflicts and land grabs, including the cessation of the now western US from Mexico, plus Cuba, Guam, Hawaii and more.

After years of violence between the Navajo and the U.S. Army, the Navajo People were ordered to relocate from Arizona to New Mexico, only to find barren land and death, which led to the Navajo Treaty of 1868, allowing the tribe to move back home under conditions of peace.

During the 1972 re-election campaign of President Nixon, the Watergate Scandal was uncovered by FBI whistleblowers, resulting in Nixon’s resignation from office.

The Progressive Era from 1896 to 1916 was a period of social reform from the excesses of the Gilded Age, promoting prohibition, suffrage, corporate governance, labor laws, and more.

The Federalist Papers were a collection of 85 essays written predominantly by Alexander Hamilton, but include contributions from James Madison and John Jay. The papers reflected on issues of governance, taxation, regulation, and more.

Between 1872 and 1874, European-Americans killed more than 40 million buffalo, an animal heavily depended on by Native Americans which forced them to migrate and assimilate into their plans for westward expansion.