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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 adults around it. Also granted supplies and originated laws. -
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. -
the fundamental law of the U.S. federal system of government and a landmark document of the Western world. -
the separation of the 13 north American British colonies from Great Britain -
a small war during the American Revolutionary War. It boosted the morale of the American troops -
provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory -
it established American rights relation to their government. -
tightened restrictions on foreign-born Americans and limited speech critical of the government -
established the federal court system separate from individual state courts. -
Established the principle of judicial review -
basically a land deal between the US and france -
President James Monroe warned European nation against further involvement in and colonization in the Western Hemisphere. -
Ending of 28 years of joint occupancy of the Pacific Northwest signed by James K. Polk with Great Britain -
the admission of California as a “free state,” provided for a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico, established a boundary between Texas and the United States, called for the abolition of the slave trade in Washington, DC, and amended the Fugitive Slave Act -
repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. -
resulted in the emancipation of four million enslaved African Americans. It also brought vast changes to the nation's financial system, fundamentally altered the relationship between the states and the federal government, and became modern history's first total war. -
The Confederates could have won the battle on the first day. They pushed the Federals from their advanced positions in front of Gettysburg and along Seminary Ridge. It also involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point. -
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 -
it abolished slavery and involuntary servitude. on. January 31 -
the amendment guarantees citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, especially for the newly emancipated African Americans after the Civil War -
control over all federal law enforcement, and all criminal prosecutions and civil suits in which the United States had an interest. -
established that states could enact regulations to protect their citizens. The decision in this case ruled that the state of New York could regulate certain commercial activities without violating the Commerce Clause.
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On May 6, 1882, a 10-year suspension of immigration of Chinese laborers, and Chinese not allowed to become citizens -
A secret operation in which the US government secretly sent weapons to a known enemy and sent financial aid to a rebel force -
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 trial court decisions -
Prof. J. Franklin Jameson of Brown University urged the American Historical Association to advocate greater use of archival sources -
established the authority of the federal government to regulate activities along almost all waters within the United States -
the combined process by which adverse environmental effects of surface mining are minimized and mined lands are returned to a beneficial end use
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President Theodore Roosevelt established Pelican Island in the Indian River Lagoon as the first federal bird reservation. -
allows the president to protect areas of scientific or historical interest on federal lands as national monuments. -
the most expansive act concerning the judiciary ever passed by Congress. -
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 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. -
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 -
legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933 -
The Veterans’ Bureau was renamed 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. -
Limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. -
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. -
The New Deal was responsible for some powerful and important accomplishments. It put people back to work. It saved capitalism. It restored faith in the American economic system, while at the same time, it revived a sense of hope in the American people. -
provided World War II veterans with funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing. -
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affected domestic policy in two ways: socially and economically. The intensive indoctrination of the American people led to a regression of social reforms especially regarding civil rights, labor unions, working conditions, and women's concerns. -
proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. -
The 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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gave the Board of Governors control over other tools of monetary policy -
strengthened the position of Castro's administration, which proceeded to openly proclaim its intention to adopt socialism and pursue closer ties with the Soviet Union -
Prohibits racial discrimination in voting -
fear of communism due to Cold War tensions with communist countries such as China and the Soviet Union -
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 -
prevent the West from having further influence on the East, stop the flow of migrants out of the communist sector, and ultimately become the most iconic image of the Cold War in Europe. -
Iraq was particularly harsh in blaming Kuwait, arguing that Kuwait constructed military and oil facilities on Iraqi territory while Iraq was concentrating on the Iran-Iraq war. Which led to a war -
restored American confidence in its position as the world's sole superpower and helped to exorcise the ghost of Vietnam -
the deadliest terrorist attacks on American soil in U.S. history. -
political movement that emerged in 2009 in the United States, generally opposing excessive taxation and government intervention in the private sector while supporting stronger immigration controls