The Whig Party was formed in 1833, in opposition the dominant Democratic Party and President Andrew Jackson. The Party was formed primarily on the ideology that Congress should always possess greater authority over the direction of the nation than the President. The first election contested by the Whigs was the election of 1936, but the party was insufficiently organized to run one candidate across the whole nation, so they opted for a series of regional challengers in the hope that they could deny a clear majority to Martin Van Buren, and therefore bring the election to the Senate. They narrowly missed out on this goal. In the election of 1840, however, the Whigs ran their first unified candidate, William Henry Harrison, who promptly died after thirty-one days in office. 

Martin Van Buren was a staunch Democrat and Andrew Jackson’s chosen successor. The other four Presidents were all members of the Whig Party at the time of their inauguration. Although it is worth noting that President John Tyler blocked so much Whig legislation that he was expelled from the Whig Party during his presidency. 

As part of the Compromise of 1850, all runaway slaves, at their capture, were to be returned to their masters.  Abolitionists called it the "Bloodhound Law" because of the bloodhounds used in the barbaric hunt.

Adopted on December 6th, 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery and forced servitude. It was one of three Reconstruction Amendments following the Civil War.

The eighth President of the United States, Martin van Buren, was instrumental in founding the Democratic Party, the oldest current party in the country. 

During the time of Washington, then Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans, the rights of “civilized” Native American organizations to remain effectively autonomous within the United States was guaranteed and upheld; however, when Andrew Jackson came into the Presidency he sought to undo this trend. In a speech in 1829 he argued for the removal of Native Americans to lands west of the Mississippi. The plan was met with general support by the American public, particularly those in the South, who desired bountiful Indian farming land. Jackson was notably opposed by Christian missionaries and a young Abraham Lincoln. Nevertheless, the bill passed Congress in 1830, and for the next two decades Native American groups all along the Eastern Seaboard were evicted from their lands and forced to migrate westwards.

Although the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, it was the Fifteenth Amendment that gave black men the right to vote. All women did not receive the right to vote until 1920 with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.

Sitting Bull defeated Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn.

The preceding text is the First Amendment to the United States Constitution adopted on December 15th, 1791.

From 1865 to 1872, the Freedmen's Bureau was responsible for assisting recently freed slaves. Its full name was The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.