America went to war against Great Britain to assert its rights as an independent, sovereign nation, and to attempt the ...

1792-1821: 6 new slave states enter the United States: Kentucky (1792), Tennessee (1796); Louisiana (1812), Mississippi (1817), Alabama (1819), and Missouri (1821) Territory north of 36 degrees 30 ...

The one that every schoolchild learns about began in 1804, when Thomas Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their epic journey across North America ... sq mi MAPS: RYAN MORRIS ...

Engraved by: Neele, 352 Strand. 1 map : col. ; 25.1 x 34.6 cm. The University of Michigan Library provides access to these materials for educational and research purposes. These materials may be under ...

The heart of the site is the Grand Plaza, which is surrounded by the Central Acropolis, the North Acropolis ... The longest text in Precolumbian America, the stairway provides a history of ...

Seeking to humiliate the United States, Britain attacked its capital in August 1814. With little resistance, the British ...

Locate them using a large map. Share any holiday photographs from pupils who have visited countries in North America such as Disney World, Florida, US and add them to a map along with other images.

The War of 1812 between Britain and the United States was fought on ... following research in the United States which was completed with the aid of a Caird North America Fellowship from the National ...

Gerrymandering’ was coined in 1812, and the practice has grown to such an extent that political representation is severely ...

The spectre of nuclear war is casting a shadow over parts of America as ... Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming are heavily ...

Intense wildfires in Canada have sparked pollution alerts across swathes of North America as smoke is blown south along the continent's east coast. Toronto, Ottawa, New York and Washington DC are ...

The War of 1812, despite not even having a decent name, is, like, the best war ever. Not a ton of people died, an important principle (American sovereignty ... the war in the north and even ...