Lecompton Constitution, (1857), an instrument framed in Lecompton, Kan., by Southern pro-slavery advocates of Kansas statehood. It contained clauses...
The oldest commissioned ship in the United States, the USS Constitution was launched on October 1797. After having seen fighting in the Quasi-War with...
On January 7, 1861, two days before Alabama's secession from the United States of America, delegates attending Alabama's Secession Convention passed...