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US First President 1789 - 1797
He was one of the founding fathers of the United States. He came to be known as the "Father of the country" both during his Lifetime and to this day.
A common misconseption about George Washington was that he had wooden teeth. His teeths started to fall out when he was only 22 years old and when he became president he only had one tooth left. He tried to replace them by having teeth carved from elk's teeth or Ivory. The reason that people thought he had wooden teeth came through because his bone teeth darkened With all the wine he drank, causing them to look like Wood pieces.

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John Adams was the second president of the United States of America, 1797 - 1801. He was the first vice president in the US, from 1789 - 1797.

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The Civil war was fought between the Northern and Southern states from 1861 - 1865. The southern states were called the Confederate states (red coats), while the northern states were the Union states (blue coats).

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Third US President, 1801-1809.
One of the main brains behind the Declaration of independence. Had close links to France. Worked against slavery during his time as president.

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The Civil War in America was a result of the controversy over slavery and the use of them in Labour. The South and the North fought against each other and the North won, freeing the slaves and giving them rights and Security. though the South still excluded blacks from political process and segregated them from the society. it would be another Century before the former slaves would regain their civil rights and for the policy of segregation to be abolished

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The American Revolutionary War lasted from 1775 until 1783.
"No taxation without representation" was the slogan of the American separatists.
A continental government was formed in order to coordinate the resistance against British rule.
France joined the war alongside the Americans in 1778.

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The North had more men and war materials than the South.

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President 1861 - 65. Famous for the Gettysburg Address. Proclaimed slavery fundamentally evil. President during the Civil War. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by him, declaring slavery unlawful. Shot and killed in 1865 by a proslave actor at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C.

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Leiv Eiriksson first discovered America, but none of the viking colonies lasted. The continent was later discovered and claimed once again, by Christopher Colombus.

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The American Revolution War(1775-83) is also known as the U.S War of Independence. The conflict arose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain’s 13 North American colonies and the colonial government, which represented the British crown. Skirmishes between British troops and colonial militiamen in Lexington and Concord in April 1775 kicked off the armed conflict, and by the following summer, the rebels were waging a full-scale war for their independence. France entered the American Revolution on the side of the colonists in 1778, turning what had essentially been a civil war into an international conflict. After French assistance helped the Continental Army force the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781, the Americans had effectively won their independence, though fighting would not formally end until 1783.

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President Jefferson bought vast areas west of the Mississippi from France in 1803.

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For a small amount of money, families could buy a piece of land. The conditions were that you had to live on it and farm it for at least 5 years. Many took this offer and settled in the small villages and large plains of the Midwest and the West.

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Belief that it was destined for the United States to expand from the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast to the Pacific Ocean to the west, and to some that the country should cover all of North America.

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The land used in the Homestead Act was taken from the Indian tribes, forcing them to live on reservations.

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Slavery was a major cause of disunion. Southern states believed that freeing the slaves would ruin their economy, due to the large amount of Capital invested in slavery.

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| 1. George Washington (1789-1797
| 2. John Adams (1797-1801)
| 3. Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)
| 4. James Madison (1809-1817)
| 5. James Monroe (1817-1825)
| 6. John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)
| 7. Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)
| 8. Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)
| 9. William Henry Harrison (1841)
| 10. John Tyler (1841-1845)
| 11. James K. Polk (1845-1849)
| 12. Zachary Taylor (1849-1850)
| 13. Millard Fillmore (1850-1853)
| 14. Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)
| 15. James Buchanan (1857-1861)
16. Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)

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The Civil War in America was a result of the disagreement surrounding slavery and the use of slave labour.

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In 1863 Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as a way of undermining the South. It declared all slaves in the South to be free, and allowed African Americans to join the Union Army.

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The issues of slavery and central power divided the United States

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George Washington and his troops won the battle of Trenton against the Brits on Christmas eve 1776. This was one of the battles during the War of Independence.

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The novel about Huckleberry Finn and his African American friend Jim is written by Mark Twain. It is set along the Mississippi river in pre-Civil War USA.

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This short story by Kate Chopin about a young couple in Louisiana, US, shows the importance of heritage in the southern states. When their son turns out to be coloured, the husband suspects his wife of having a coloured ancestor. There is a twist at the end of the story, as the reader discovers that it was actually the husband's mother who was coloured.