The Cultural Nations of America

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In 1846, the Donner Party was the last westbound wagon train of the season and the first with wagons to attempt a new route, which forced them to endure a deadly Sierra Nevada winter at Truckee Lake.

Ronald Reagan’s supply-side, trickle-down economic policies were popular in the 1980s after a period of rising inflation, high government spending and crime rates.

Adding weight behind the First Reconstruction Act to give post-Civil War African Americans their rights, the 15th Amendment supported U.S. voting rights, indiscriminate of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Scholars argue over the origins of the legend of werewolves, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Nordic folklore, the belief in lycanthropy, or humans that shape-shift into a wolf, has been popular throughout history.

John Brown’s radical plans for the abolition of slavery culminated in the Harpers Ferry raid, where 22 recruited men helped Brown overtake an armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, leading to a fatal and treasonous standoff.

When allied French reinforcements were delayed, George Washington created the illusion of a large soldier encampment, bluffing the British. In the Battle of Yorktown, Alexander Hamilton led a charge with only bayonets and hand-to-hand combat, ending with Cornwallis’ surrender.

In the Mississippi summer of 1964, known as Freedom Summer, civil rights activists intended to register black voters where taxes and tests stymied their rights. After the bodies of student activists were found murdered by the KKK, public outcry eventually led to the passage of civil and voting rights acts.