History: 18th Century

1st President of the United States (1789–97)

2nd President of the United States (1797–1801).

American inventor of the cotton gin.

American silversmith and political leader in the American Revolution.

American statesman.

US scientist and statesman.

Full and formal declaration adopted July 4, 1776, by representatives of the Thirteen Colonies in North America announcing the separation of those colonies from Great Britain and making them into the United States.

Struggle by which the Thirteen Colonies on the Atlantic seaboard of North America won independence from Great Britain and became the United States.

the 1787 meeting in which the Constitution of the United States was drawn up.

Ratified in 1781 and superseded by the Constitution of the United States in 1789.

First 10 amendments to the Constitution of the United States, adopted as a group in 1791.

Adopted by the Congress of Confederation for the government of the Western territories ceded to the United States by the states.

A movement culminating in the late 18th and early 19th centuries that aimed first to end the slave trade, and then to abolish the institution of slavery and emancipate slaves.

Slavery has been found among many groups of low material culture, as in the Malay Peninsula and among some Native Americans; it also has occurred in more highly developed societies, such as the southern United States.

Loosely organized system for helping fugitive slaves escape to Canada or to areas of safety in free states. It was run by local groups of Northern abolitionists, both white and free blacks.