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Wilderness Road
The Wilderness Road was the principal route used by settlers for more than five years to reach Kentucky from the East -
French And Indian War
The French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1756-1763. The Britsh and Americans won this war. -
American Revolution
The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, and founded the United States of America. -
Dec. of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer under British rule. Instead they formed a new nation—the United States of America. John Adams was a leader in pushing for independence, which was passed on July 2 with no opposing vote cast. -
Const.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. -
Washington
George Washington was an American soldier and statesman who served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 -
Adams
John Adams was an American patriot who served as the second President of the United States and the first Vice President. He was a lawyer, diplomat, and statesman, and, as a Founding Father, a leader of American independence from Great Britain -
Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809 -
Madison
James Madison Jr. was an American statesman and Founding Father who served as the fourth President of the United States from 1809 to 1817 -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a military conflict that lasted from June 1812 to February 1815, fought between the United States of America and the United Kingdom, its North American colonies, and its Native American allies -
Monroe
James Monroe was an American statesman who served as the fifth President of the United States from 1817 and 1825. -
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution is the name given the movement in which machines changed people's way of life as well as their methods of manufacture. About the time of the American Revolution, the people of England began to use machines to make cloth and steam engines to run the machines.
