On April 12, 1861, Confederate soldiers stormed Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay, South Carolina. The fort was controlled by Union troops.

Judicial review defines the power of the federal courts to decide the constitutionality of legislative and executive acts.

The Mayflower was blown off course and ended up sailing into Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts.

Obama became the 44th president of the U.S. in January 2009 and was reelected for a second term in 2012.

On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress convened in Pennsylvania, adopting this resolution to declare independence from British rule.

With massive losses in lives and property, Japan surrendered, ending the six-year conflict in September 1945.

Historians consider the Battle of Gettysburg as a turning point in the Civil War. The battle lasted from July 1 to 3, 1863.

The tax protest was against taxation without representation rather than a protest against high taxes.

Ponce de Leon and his convoy of three shops landed in unmapped territory that he called La Florida, and the first settlement was St. Augustine.

Smith was captured by warriors of Chief Powhatan, and Pocahontas intervened to prevent his beheading.