In November 1689 Joseph Wadsworth hid this colony's charter from the British by placing it in an oak tree
He earned his captain's commission by burning the Philadelphia at Tripoli in 1804
Shrapnel from a 1916 munitions storage plant explosion in Jersey City, NJ damaged this famous statue
Frances Perkins was trying to improve working conditions in these in the 1910s, Kathie Lee in the '90s
The U.S. made this great buy from France in 1803 & would have been happy with just New Orleans
If this act hadn't passed July 14, 1798, we would have had just the Alien Acts
In 1844 John C. Fremont crossed the Sierra Nevada & this John C. became Secretary of State
In 1843 Congress allocated $30,000 to string one between Baltimore & Washington; it was completed in 1844
In 1873 President Grant proclaimed this city the site of the Centennial Exposition of 1876
Before cotton became king, this plant that yields a violet dye was a popular southern crop