Union Congress passes the Homestead Act
On This Day, May 20th, 1862, The Union Congress passes the Homestead Act, allowing an adult over the age of 21, male or female, to claim 160 acres of land from the public domain. Eligible […]
On This Day, May 20th, 1862, The Union Congress passes the Homestead Act, allowing an adult over the age of 21, male or female, to claim 160 acres of land from the public domain. Eligible […]
On this day, May 19th, in 1795, Josiah Bartlett, a New Hampshire Patriot and signatory of the Declaration of Independence who also served as the state’s governor and Supreme Court chief justice, dies. Over 200 […]
Abraham Lincoln Nominated. On This Day, May 18th, 1860 a one-time U.S. representative from Illinois, Lincoln is nominated for the U.S. presidency by the Republican National Convention meeting in Chicago, Illinois. Hannibal Hamlin of Maine […]
BREAKING: Trump is not incompetent, he is destroying 8 years of Liberal Lunacy intentionally, and by the sounds of a media in agony, I would say whatever it is he is doing, it’s working. Never […]
On this day, May 17th, in 1769, George Washington launches a legislative salvo at Great Britain’s fiscal and judicial attempts to maintain its control over the American colonies. With his sights set on protesting the […]
On this day in, May 16th, 1777, British-born Georgia Patriot and signer of the Declaration of Independence Button Gwinnett receives a bullet wound in a duel with his political rival, Georgia city Whig Lachlan McIntosh. […]
On this day, May 15th, in 1781, a 352-man-strong Loyalist force commanded by Major Andrew Maxwell surrenders a fortified frame building, named Fort Granby, to a Patriot force in South Carolina. Maxwell is better remembered […]
On this day, May 14th, in 1804. a year after the United States doubled its territory with the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition leaves St. Louis, Missouri, on a mission to explore the […]
On May 13, 1846, In a dispute over Texas, President James K. Polk declares war on Mexico, when the U.S. Congress overwhelmingly votes in favor of hist request. Under the threat of war, the United States […]
After a siege that began on April 2, 1780, Americans suffer their worst defeat of the revolution on this day, May 12th, in 1780, when Major General Benjamin Lincoln and his army of 10,000 are […]
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