Yankees invade Great Britain

John Paul Jones was once a British man named, simply, John Paul. He was suspected of murder so he ran away to America to escape trial. He became a navy officer for the American Army, and led a raid on his home country England. The plan of the raid was to sneak onto the British boats at night and set them on fire, however they didn't plan on the strong winds that night and couldn't get the fires started. After struggling to find something that would keep the fires burning John Paul Jones was able to use tar to keep the boats ablaze. As he sailed away he looked back at what he had done. With a few more hours time he could have set the whole city ablaze

The Louisiana Purchase

        France technically didn't own the Louisiana Territory when they sold it to America. So they were anxious to get the deal over and done with. The land was indeed supposed to be theirs, but France had not held up their side of an agreement with Spain. The deal ended up working out perfectly for both France and America. France sold a huge amount of land, that would soon be taken away from them anyway, for a very large amount of money, which would be very useful in their current war with Great Britain. America was able to double their land mass with a $60,000,000 purchase which seems like a lot of money but when you break it down, it would be about $72 per square acre.

Lewis and Clark head to the Pacific

Meriweather Lewis, who used to be Thomas Jefferson's secretary, was hand picked by Jefferson to lead an expedition in the land America had just bought. It was called the Louisiana Purchase. Lewis, despite being put in charge of the expedition, chose his close war friend William Clark to be co-commander of the adventure. Though they were two very different people they worked together extremely well, it is said that they never had a disagreement or argued about a single important decision. Their trip to the Pacific ocean took over a year and a half, and the crossed over 8,000 miles of land.

Jefferson At The White House

Jefferson had lots of fancy things with him at the White House but his favorite thing was a Mocking Bird. He loved his bird not only for the music it sang, but it was uncommonly smart and was quite affectionate towards Jefferson. When he went up to his room the bird would hop up the stairs after him. As an old man missing his grandchildren, his bird was the next best thing and received extraordinary care.

Aaron Burr Kills Alexander Hamilton

        Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton never liked each other. Hamilton had stopped Burrs ambitions 2 times. The first time Hamilton convinced the House of Representatives to elect Thomas Jefferson as president over Aaron Burr. The second time Burr was running for governor of New York, but many people with held their votes because of some statements Hamilton made about Burr's character. Outraged by Hamilton intervening, Burr challenged Hamilton to a duel. Once both parties arrived at the set destination they proceeded to load their pistols, and took their positions. Alexander Hamilton took his shot, it is unknown whether he missed on purpose or not, but his shot did not hit Aaron Burr. The second shot fired and Alexander Hamilton fell to the ground. This duel would end Alexander Hamilton's life and Aaron Burr's life.

Thomas Jefferson recieves a important tip from John Adams

     During the time that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were writing the Declaration of Independence, John Adams made sure to let Thomas Jefferson know to keep his writing simple. He told him a story about a friend of his who was apprenticed to a hatter. After his apprenticeship was over the man wanted to open his own business, but in order to do that he needed a sign for his store. His original sign read "John Thompson, Hatter, makes and sells hats for ready money" with a drawing of a hat on it too. He showed the sign to his friends to have them give him their opinions. They told him that the word "Hatter" was unnecessary because he followed it by saying he made hats. So they took that out. Then the told him that it was pointless to say he was selling hats because people wouldn't expect him to give them away for free. That left him with "John Thompson, makes hats." At this they said he should simply take out the "makes" and leave it to "John Thompson, Hats" with a drawing of a hat on the sign as well.