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Northern America fought to stop slavery all throughout America because Southern America was fighting them to keep slavery in America. Abraham Lincoln led the Union states to victory.
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Abraham Lincoln issued the proclamation which said that all slaves henceforth shall be free all over America.
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Orville and Wilbur Wright created and flew in the first successful powered airplane near Kitty Hawk North Carolina.
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World War ii was a global war involving most countries. The fight began when the Prime Minister of Britain declared war on Germany. The fight lasted for 6 years and the Allies (Britain, America, Soviet Union, and China) beat the Axis (Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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Roosevelt signed an executive order to ban discrimination in the employment of workers against race, creed, color, or natural origin all throughout America to ensure equal rights for everyone.
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The Cold War was a state of geological tension after World War ii between the United States and its Allies, and the Soviet Union and their satellite states.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus. This helped to initiate the civil rights movement in the United States.
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The creation of NASA, which followed close on the heels of Russia's Sputnik, was a historic step further equipping the United States for leadership in the space age.
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Ham the chimp, the first hominid to be launched into space, was launched in Cape Canaveral, Florida. He survived and came back down onto earth.
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Nasa launched the first successful mission to put a man on the Moon. Two men named Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin set foot on the Moon and claimed it for America.
