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Many immigrants came to America seeking greater economic opportunity, while some, religious freedom
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free slavery
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was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments
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citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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Tammany Hall was a New York City political organization to use immigrants to vote
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involved an array of lawsuits founded upon the patent claims of several individuals and numerous companies
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This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration
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regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.
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It allowed certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be competitive
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a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force
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strike had won the steelworkers a favorable three-year contract; 1892 Andrew Carnegie was determined to break the union
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“separate but equal” doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws.
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Dole declared Hawaii an independent republic. Spurred by the nationalism aroused by the Spanish-American War
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the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
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term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the United States policy
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is "Square Deal" included regulation of railroad rates and pure foods and drugs. republican party
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big stick diplomacy, or big stick policy
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Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities
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For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors
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dollar diplomacy third-party candidate
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dollar diplomacy, in which the United States used its military might to promote American business interests abroad
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democratic party progressive reform
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States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments
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women the right to vote womans suffrage
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The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is a United States government corporation providing deposit insurance to depositors in US banks
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1932 Germany saw the rise of the Nazi party into a prominent political force. The Weimar government had failed its people and, following the worldwide depression,
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The Nanking Massacre was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing
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Kristallnacht or Reichskristallnacht, also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, Reichspogromnacht or simply Pogromnacht, and Novemberpogrome
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The Invasion of Poland, known in Poland as the September Campaign ( or the 1939 Defensive War (Wojna obronna 1939 and in Germany as the Poland Campaign (Polenfeldzug) or Fall Weiss ("Case White"), was a joint invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany
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The name code talkers is strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the Marines to serve in their standard communications units in the Pacific Theater.
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Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942.
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The Bataan Death March (Filipino: Martsa ng Kamatayan sa Bataan; Japanese:
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A law passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II
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During the final stage of World War II, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively.
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Victory over Japan Day (also known as V-J Day, Victory in the Pacific Day, or V-P Day) is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war.
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The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order
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the western powers introduced a new form of currency into the western zones, which caused the Soviet Union to impose the Berlin Blockade one day later
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The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War
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limits the number of times one can be elected to the office of President of the United States.
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The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13,000,000,000
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Truman, however, did not want to cause World War III. Instead, he ordered a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin. On June 26, 1948, the first planes took off from bases in England and western Germany and landed in West Berlin
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Connect with Britannica. From its founding, NATO's primary purpose was to unify and strengthen the Western Allies' military response to a possible invasion of western Europe by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies.
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populous nation in East Asia whose vast landscape encompasses grassland, desert, mountains, lakes, rivers and more than 14,000km of coastline.
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The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was an armistice during the First World War between the Allies and Germany
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case, "the first and only Mexican-American civil-rights case heard and decided by the United States Supreme Court during the post-World War II
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United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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nacted August 10, 1964, was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
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The Warsaw Pact, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe
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Oral polio vaccine (OPV) is an attenuated vaccine, produced by the passage of the virus through non-human cells at a sub-physiological temperature, which produces spontaneous mutations in the viral genome.
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for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
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political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery,
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The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. It took several years of wrangling, but a new Federal-Aid Highway Act passed in June 1956.
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February 1956. As "Heartbreak Hotel" makes its climb up the charts on its way to #1
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the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.
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a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957
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The United States presidential election of 1960 was the 44th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960.
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The Bay of Pigs is an inlet of the Gulf of Cazones located on the southern coast of Cuba. By 1910, it was included in Santa Clara Province, and then instead to Las Villas Province by 1961,
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was a landmark case in criminal procedure, in which the United States Supreme Court decided that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures,
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President John F. Kennedy on March 6, 1961, required government contractors to "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and that employees are treated during employment without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.
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first Walmart store in Rogers, Arkansas. The Walton family owns 24 stores, ringing up $12.7 million in sales
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confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
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on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza
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book written by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States.
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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28,
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was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65.
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which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, i
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was a United States Supreme Court case holding that criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations under the Sixth Amendment
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signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans f
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was a decision of the United States Supreme Court. In a 5–4 majority, the Court held that both inculpatory
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Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria
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Tet Mau Than 1968 by North Vietnam and the NLF, was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched
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The Mỹ Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass murder of unarmed Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in South Vietnam on 16 March 1968.
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conducted two lotteries to determine the order of call to military service in the Vietnam War for men born from 1944 to 1950
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spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon.
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was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces
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military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during 1970 by the United States and the Republic of Vietnam as an extension of the Vietnam War and the Cambodian Civil War.
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occurred in the United States during the early 1970s, following a break-in by five men at the Democratic National Committee headquarters
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, as a federal civil rights law in the United States of America, was passed as part of the Education Amendments of 1972
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) was an important strategic and diplomatic overture that marked the culmination of the Nixon administration's resumption of harmonious relations between the United States and China
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s a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.
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U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas affirmed in part, reversed in part.
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imposed an embargo against the United States in retaliation for the U.S. decision to re-supply the Israeli military and to gain leverage in the post-war peace negotiations.
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when Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival telecommunications company
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provides for the conservation of species that are endangered or threatened throughout all or a significant portion of their range, and the conservation of the ecosystems on which they depend.
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United States Supreme Court case which resulted in a unanimous decision against President Richard Nixon, ordering him to deliver tape
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which granted his predecessor Richard Nixon a full and unconditional pardon for any crimes he might have committed against the United States while president
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The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam on 30 April 1975.
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Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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set up shop in Jobs' parents' garage, dubbed the venture Apple, and began working on the prototype of the Apple I
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hile its detractors labeled it the Fundamentalist Takeover. It was launched with the charge that the seminaries and denominational agencies were dominated by liberals.
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also referred to as trickle-down theory, is an economic theory that advocates reducing taxes on businesses and the wealthy in society
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US service personnel -- including 220 Marines and 21 other service personnel -- are killed by a truck bomb at a Marine compound in Beirut, Lebanon.
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referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the Iran–Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration
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a line from a speech made by US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier
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The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc.
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The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West.
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in which the German Democratic Republic became part of the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany,
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2-day operation conducted by Iraq against the neighboring state of Kuwait, which resulted in the seven-month-long Iraqi occupation of the country.
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Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor.
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African-American tax ifter a videotape was released of several police officers beating him during his arrest on March 3, 1991.
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elections resulted in Republicans gaining 54 House and 9 U.S. Senate seats.
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was initiated by the House of Representatives on December 19, 1998, against Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, on two charges, one of perjury and one of obstruction of justice.
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Act of Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001.
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international military campaign that was launched by the U.S. government after the September 11 attacks in the U.S. in 2001.
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September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001
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American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.
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Tropical Depression Twelve over the southeastern Bahamas on August 23, 2005, as the result of an interaction between a tropical wave and the remnants of Tropical Depression Ten. The storm strengthened into Tropical Storm Katrina on the morning of August 24.
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after being convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the murder of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites in the town of Dujail in 1982, in retaliation for an assassination attempt against him.
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, Steve Jobs announced iPhone at the Macworld convention, receiving substantial media attention.
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