The Cultural Nations of America

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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.

The 2004 tsunami on Boxing Day would prove to be the deadliest in recorded history, taking a staggering 230,000 lives after a 9.1 earthquake ripped through an undersea fault in the Indian Ocean.

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.

Barney Oldfield was a competitive bicycle racer turned motor enthusiast who set auto racing records in the early 1900s after meeting Henry Ford.