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Important in the American Revolution's pursuit of liberty, it was made meaningful by the founding of the document. -
The founding fathers laid down the law in which the newly independent country would be governed. -
Robert E. Lee invades with the Army of Northern Virginia sustaining a defeat so devastating that it sealed the fate of the Confederacy. -
Caused by the rise of organized labor led by the Knights of Labor was a protest meeting disrupted by the explosion of a bomb killing seven police officers. -
The U.S. supreme court gave constitutional sanction to laws designed to achieve racial segregation. -
The stock market crashing further set into motion years of economic deprivation creating what's known as the Great Depression. -
Roosevelt gave his first in a long series (1933-44) of straightforward informational radio addresses. -
With the war in Europe over and the U.S. forces advancing on Japan, president Turman chose to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
The most prominent civil rights leader revealed the tragic, violent consequences that could result from a county's political polarization. -
Islamist terrorists crashed hijacked planes into the world trade center in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington DC, and the Pennsylvania countryside resulting in the deaths of nearly 3,000 people.