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🟩In 1790, Alexander Hamilton, as the first Secretary of the Treasury, proposed a financial plan to stabilize the nation's economy, which included assuming state debts, establishing a national bank, and promoting manufacturing through tariffs and subsidies.
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first urged moderation, then encouraged drinkers to help each other to resist temptation, and ultimately demanded that local, state, and national governments prohibit alcohol outright. -
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🟩In 1832, President Andrew Jackson vetoed the bill to recharter the Second Bank of the United States, arguing it was unconstitutional and a tool of the elite, thus sparking a major political and economic struggle known as the "Bank War
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The 410,000 documented arrivals from Ireland in the database represent about one-third to one-quarter of the up to 1.5 million Irish who arrived in the United States during the broader Famine period of 1845–1855, including some who walked into the country after landing in Canada. -
The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) was caused by a combination of factors, primarily the annexation of Texas by the United States in 1845, which Mexico refused to recognize, and a dispute over the Texas-Mexico border. President James K. Polk's Manifest Destiny ideology, which aimed to expand U.S. territory across the continent, also played a significant role.
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🟦launched the women's rights and suffrage movements in the United States.
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🟦The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation
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The Spanish-American War started due to a complex mix of factors, including the Cuban struggle for independence, sensationalized reporting by newspapers, and the explosion of the USS Maine. The Cuban struggle, ongoing since 1895, gained American sympathy due to reports of Spanish atrocities, particularly the "Reconcentration Policy" which forced Cubans into concentration camps. American newspapers, known as "yellow journalism,"
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The Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre, was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist massacre that took place between May 31 and June 1, 1921 -
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🟦In 1923, on the 75th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, infamous American suffragette Alice Paul held a second national convention to begin campaigning for a new constitutional amendment, one that would guarantee the rights of women. It was then that she proposed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
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🟩The Great Depression, a severe global economic downturn, began in 1929 with the stock market crash and lasted until the start of World War II in 1939, marked by high unemployment, poverty, and bank failures.
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🟩The Dust Bowl, a period of severe dust storms and drought in the 1930s, devastated the Great Plains region, leading to ecological damage, economic hardship, and widespread migration.
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🟩During Roosevelt's first hundred days in office in 1933 until 1935, he introduced what historians refer to as the "First New Deal", which focused on the "3 R's": relief for the unemployed and for the poor, recovery of the economy back to normal levels, and reforms of the financial system to prevent a repeat depression.
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The Chicago Freedom Movement, also known as the Chicago open housing movement, was led by Martin Luther King Jr., -
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During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority, mostly in the western interior of the country -
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The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots that took place June 3–8, 1943, in Los Angeles, California, United States, involving American servicemen stationed in Southern California and young Latino and Mexican American city residents. -
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The Korean War, often referred to as "The Forgotten War," was fought from June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953. This website is dedicated to thanking and honoring all the veterans of the Korean War, their families, and especially those who lost loved ones in that war.
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The Vietnam War was a protracted and divisive conflict that significantly impacted the 20th century
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🟦The Red Power movement was a social movement which was led by Native American youth who demanded self-determination for Native Americans in the United States. .
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In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, changed the landscape of homosexual society quite literally overnight. Since then, the term 'Stonewall' itself has become almost synonymous with the struggle for gay rights. -
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What was the National March on Washington in 1987?
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The Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights was a massive political rally in Washington, D.C. The rally took place on October 11, 1987. Due to its large turnout of around 750,000 participants and the focus on AIDS activism, this March on Washington stands as an important part of LGBTQ history. -