A compromise allowed Maine's admission to the union in 1820 as a free state & this as a slave state in 1821
The Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions were passed in opposition to these 1798 acts
For their part in this 1770 Massachusetts riot, 2 soldiers were branded on the thumb
This monument with a 19-foot seated statue was dedicated by President Harding May 30, 1922
The Supreme Court's 7-2 decision in this slavery case helped bring on the Civil War
Though elected to the senate in 1930, this Louisiana governor didn't take his seat until 1932
In September, 1971, 43 peole were killed during a 4-day riot at this New York prison
Nickname given the WWII backyard vegetable patches
In May of 1780, Gen. Benjamin Lincoln was forced to surrender this South Carolina port to the British
More than 200 U.S. Marines were killed in 1983 by a truck bomb at their barracks in this Mideast capital