Surviving the "starving time" of the first colonies; battling their mother country for independence; heading out to the frontier and west into the unknown.
In the mid-1800's, Abraham Lincoln is elected President of a United States on the brink of Civil War; Teddy Roosevelt steps forward, bringing fierce leadership.
The 1930's brings the greatest economic crisis in its history; FDR offers the troubled nation a New Deal; Pearl Harbor is a lightning bolt to the American soul.