The murder of a young woman named Jane McCrea during this war helped energize the American troops before a decisive battle.

"The Battle of Lowell’s Pond," this author’s first poem, was published in the Portland (Maine) Gazette when the poet was thirteen.

America’s first transcontinental telegraph line was completed in this year..

She was the first woman whose death led to an adjournment of Congress.

The Webster-Ashburton Treaty settled a border dispute between these two countries.