Quick and Dirty History

As Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the 16th President of America…states have already begun to secede and join the confederacy.  The Civil War has begun.

Abraham Lincoln is the Big Buck of This Lick!  He and the new Republican Party set out to oppose slavery, just as the Supreme Court doubles down with one of their worst decisions…the Dred Scott case.

Tensions are mounting between political parties and the northern and southern states.  The powder keg is about to explode.

The feminine frontier has begun!  Women want their voices heard at the ballot box…and they’re gonna get it!

There’s gold in them there hills!  Gold is struck in California!  We’re gonna get rich…or, at least a few dudes are.

California roars towards independence!  It’s the Bear Flag Revolt.

Chuck Norris makes Texas a state, then he fights a war…on his own.

The future of the Texas hangs in the balance…as tensions explode, so do the cannons.  The fighting kicks off at the Alamo, with folk legend Davy Crockett.  It doesn’t turn out so well for him, but everyone will Remember the Alamo!

Westside is the best side…Unless you died of dysentery along the way.  #OregonTrail.  Manifest Destiny broadens the horizons of the young United States, but there’s a dark side to westward expansion.

The American government wages war on Native Americans and the banks…at the behest of Andrew Jackson.  The Trail of Tears becomes one of America’s darkest stories.