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Sensing the need for rapprochement, Godoy sent a request to the U.S. Government for a representative empowered to negotiate a new treaty.
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consisted of four laws passed by the Federalist-controlled Congress as America prepared for war with France.
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Marbury v. Madison, legal case in which, on February 24, 1803, the U.S. Supreme Court first declared an act of Congress unconstitutional, thus establishing the doctrine of judicial review
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economic sanctions taken by the British and French against the US as part of the Napoleonic Wars and American outrage at the British practice of impressment, especially after the Chesapeake incident of 1807.
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he Treaty was negotiated by John Quincy Adams, the Secretary of State under U.S. President James Monroe, and the Spanish "minister plenipotentiary" (diplomatic envoy) Luis de Onís y González-Vara, during the reign of King Ferdinand VII.
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An act providing for the prosecution of the existing war between the United States and the Republic of Mexico
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The Union victory in the Civil War in 1865 may have given some 4 million slaves their freedom, but the process of rebuilding the South during the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) introduced a new set of significant challenges.
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United States federal law
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Hawaii was made a territory in 1900, and Dole became its first governor.
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and established gold as the only standard for redeeming paper money, stopping bimetallism (which had allowed silver in exchange for gold
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key piece of Progressive Era legislation
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a form of American foreign policy to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries.
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was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico.
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world peace
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support of guaranteeing women the right to vote
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The Washington Naval Conference, also called the Washington Arms Conference or the Washington Disarmament Conference, was a military conference
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The New Deal failed because Roosevelt created uncertainty by experimentation, protectionism, regulation and raising taxes
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The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
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concern for balancing the Cold War military commitments of the United States with the nation's financial resources.
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armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
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direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.
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aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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200,000 troops to help break the resolve of the Vietcong.
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an agency of the United States federal government whose mission is to protect human and environmental health.
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The announcement after the Soviet Union failed to comply with Carter's February 20, 1980, deadline to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
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marked the close of détente and a return to Cold War tensions
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The students set their hostages free on January 21, 1981, 444 days after the crisis began and just hours after President Ronald Reagan delivered his inaugural address.
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spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.
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Clinton, while signing the NAFTA bill, stated that "NAFTA means jobs. American jobs, and good-paying American jobs. If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't support this agreement."
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The Act was named after James Brady, who was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. during an attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981.