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Magna Carta, Latin for "Great Charter," was a contract that established the rights of English nobles and significant landowners while restricting the King of England's ultimate authority. It became the foundation for English citizens' rights. -
the motivation behind passing regulations and keeping everything under control in the Jamestown State of Virginia and different settlements that had adult around it. -
. The Request of Right is an English Sacred request. The objective of the Request is to safeguard residents of Britain against the government and to lay out the privileges of the residents.. -
The Bill solidly settled the standards of incessant parliaments, free decisions and the right to speak freely of discourse inside Parliament - referred to the present time as Parliamentary privilege's -
to create a just government and to ensure peace an adequate national defense -
the separation of the 13 north American British colonies from Great Britain -
The Battle of Trenton was a small but crucial battle during the American Revolutionary War. It happened on the morning of December 26, 1776, in Trenton, New Jersey.
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guaranteed residents property rights as well as other rights such as trial jury and freedom of religion -
it established American rights relation to their government. -
it made the structure and jurisdiction of the federal court system and created the position -
tightened restrictions on foreign born American's and limited speech critical of the government. -
Established the principle of judicial review.
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The Louisiana Territory was purchased from France, doubling the size of the United States. -
President James Monroe warned European nation against further involvement in and colonization in the Western Hemisphere. -
President James K. Polk signed the treaty with Great Britain, gaining territory in the northwest that would become the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and parts of Wyoming and Montana. -
The Marshall Plan in the Cold War was a strategy to turn former WW2 enemies into allies by rebuilding their shattered economies.
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Congressional compromise with provisions that included that California was admitted as a free state with its current boundaries, territories in the new Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory could decide on slavery through popular sovereignty, and the slave trade was banned in Washington, DC. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 (10 Stat. 277) was an organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
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Here’s a short American Civil War summary. It was a civil war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865, between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy).
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Emancipation Proclamation was not a law that Congress had passed, but an executive order based on the president’s authority over the armed forces as specified in the Constitution.
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The Confederates could have won the battle the first day. They pushed the Federals from their advanced positions in front of Gettysburg and along Seminary Ridge.
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Adopted on December 18, it abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
Adopted on July 9, the amendment guarantees citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, especially in reference to the newly emancipated African Americans after the Civil War. -
Expanded the duties of the attorney general to head the department -
Transferred control over the admission of immigrants from the states to the federal government. -
On May 6, 1882, a 10-year suspension of immigration of Chinese laborers, and Chinese not allowed to become citizens -
Outlawed practices deemed monopolistic and thus harmful to consumers and the market economy. -
Gave the U.S. courts of appeals jurisdiction over the great majority of appeals from the U.S. district and circuit courts. -
Prof. J. Franklin Jameson of Brown University urged the American Historical Association to advocate greater use of archival sources -
The act made it a misdemeanor to discharge refuse matter into navigable waters or tributaries without permit, to alter the course or condition of any port or harbor without permit, and to dam navigable streams without a license (or permit) from Congress. It is generally administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. -
Established within the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). In 1923, renamed Bureau of Reclamation -
On March 14 at Pelican Island National Bird Reservation by President Theodore Roosevelt -
The Antiquities Act (16 U.S.C. 431-433) was the first U.S. law to provide general protection for any general kind of cultural or natural resource. Signed by President Theodore Roosevelt on June 8, 1906. -
The code abolished the U.S. circuit courts, effective January 1, 1912, transferring their jurisdiction, pending cases, and records to the U.S. district courts and making the district courts the sole trial courts of general jurisdiction in the federal judiciary. -
The first constitutionally mandated income tax. -
The act built on the Sherman Antitrust Act by now enabling the federal government to outlaw practices that it foresaw as potentially damaging to consumers and the competitive market. -
The act built on the Sherman Antitrust Act by now enabling the federal government to outlaw practices that it foresaw as potentially damaging to consumers and the competitive market.
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The U.S. wanted its forces to be capable of operating independently but didn’t have the necessary supplies and trained troops in Europe yet at the time.
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ended World War I and included the League of Nations Covenant -
German mercenary armies, the Freikorps, fought Bolsheviks in Germany, saving the secular, socialist Weimar Republic—and even tried to annex the Baltic States, in secular emulation of the Teutonic Knights.
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gave women the right to vote -
America has a strange relationship with alcohol. Certain drinks represented the darkest parts of the national psyche
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The Veterans’ Bureau was renamed as the “United States Veterans Bureau” by a joint resolution of Congress on April 24, 1921. By helping a select group of Americans, these programs provided precedents for the New Deal programs of the 1930s.
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Limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. -
In 1924, the Library of Congress opened a specially designed case known as the Shrine to house the Declaration of Independence
and Constitution. -
Nearly 10,000 banks failed, with high unemployment, and the Roosevelt administration developed the New Deal programs in an attempt to restore economic health. -
Many Americans believe his New Deal programs rescued the country from the grips of the Depression. In fact, under FDR’s new deal programs, unemployment averaged a whopping 18 percent from 1933 to 1940.
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Provided new education, training, housing, and rehabilitation benefits. It declared the Veterans Administration as an essential war agency, entitled second only to the War and Navy Departments, in funding, staffing, etc., priorities. -
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On June 5, 1947, Secretary of State George C. Marshall proposed a program of massive aid to help Europe rebuild after World War II. The European Recovery Act of April 3, 1948, provided large-scale aid to rebuild Europe and protect it from communism, 1948–52. -
he Korean War was the first and largest major battle of the Cold War, as proxies of the United States and Soviet Union took up arms to defend ideologies that clashed repeatedly over the next several decades
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Specified further changes in the Federal Reserve system, including removal of the Treasury Secretary and the Comptroller of the Currency from the Fed’s governing board. -
The operation, which would become known as the Bay of Pigs Invasion, had been conceived during the Eisenhower administration by the CIA as a way to depose Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
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Prohibits racial discrimination in voting -
Although the history of Vietnam has been dominated by war for 30 years of the 20th century, the conflict escalated during the sixties.
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On January 22, 1973, in Paris, Secretary of State William Rogers and North Vietnam’s chief negotiator, Le Duc Tho, signed “An Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam.”
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In American history, the foreign-policy scandal known as the Iran-contra affair came to light in November 1986 when President Ronald Reagan confirmed reports that the United States had secretly sold arms to Iran
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The Berlin Wall, often called the “Wall of Shame” and a symbol of the Iron Curtain of the Cold War, was torn down on November 9, 1989, two years after President Ronald Reagan challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.”
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A more recent page in the book of American history has to do with Kuwait. Saddam openly and brutally invaded Kuwait in July 1990 and brought the entire military might of the United States and its allies down on his head only six months later.
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Terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, September 11. A third highjacked plane was downed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. -
Prescribes a uniform system for classifying, safeguarding, and declassifying national security information, including information relating to defense against transnational terrorism.