Uncle Sam is originally linked to Samuel Wilson, an entrepreneurial meat packer and major supplier of beef to the US Army during the War of 1812. Wilson stamped his meat barrels with “U.S.” for United States, but soldiers began referring to the grub as “Uncle Sam’s.”

1970s America, coined the ‘Me’ decade by Tom Wolfe, saw a reversal in the communal attitudes of the 1960s. The decade was marked by environmental protection, racial equality, Nixon’s resignation, the Fall of Saigon, disco, and more.

Tensions between the British and colonialists had escalated to the Boston Massacre on March 5th, 1770, when redcoats shot five colonialists dead and wounded six more.

Although contested, the history of potato chips dates back to 1853 when Cornelius Vanderbilt sent his fried potatoes back to chef George Crum who sliced them as thin as possible before deep-frying them, becoming widely accepted as the inventor of the potato chip. 

The Compromise of 1877 involved collusion and closed-door politics to hand the White House to electoral vote loser Rutherford B. Hayes in exchange for the end of Civil War Reconstruction.

Considered the most successful insurrection of the Revolutionary War, on January 1st, 1781 continental soldiers prepared to depart the camp without permission, complaining of low pay, horrendous living conditions and a mass insistence that their three-year enlistment terms had expired.

Despite early devotion to General George McClellan from Union Army soldiers, his later dismissal as field commander and anti-war sentiment shifted support to Lincoln’s reelection in 1864.