The founder of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) Samuel Gompers was, like his father, a cigar maker.
The English immigrant reshaped the Cigar Makers International Union before founding the AFL in 1886.
On October 29, 1929, the date of the worst crash in Wall Street history, over 16 million shares of stock were traded on the New York Stock Exchange. That day, $8-9 billion in paper value was lost.
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) was the first woman in the U.S. to receive an M.D. degree. She received her degree in 1849 from Geneva Medical College in New York.
Dollar was the English spelling of the German Taler (a silver coin first issued in 1519). American colonists used the word dollar to describe the Spanish peso circulating from South America, and when it came time to devise a system of currency (in 1792), the United States government adopted the dollar as its basic monetary…
American Revolutionary patriots Samuel (1722-1803) and John Adams (1735-1826) were cousins. John Quincy Adams (17671848) was John’s son. Two of these men served as president of the U.S.: John (served 1797-1801) and John Quincy (served 1825-29).
The first U.S. military advisors were sent to South Vietnam under Dwight D. Eisenhower (served 1953-61).
In the struggle between France and England for control of North America (1754-63), most, but not all, Indians fought on the French side. They included the Abnaki of Maine, the Delaware and Shawnee of Pennsylvania, and the Potawatomi and Ottawa of Michigan and Wisconsin. The English relied on the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy.