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The principal cause of the war was the status of slavery in the United States, especially in the territories
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abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime -
marked a significant chapter in the history of civil rights in the United States
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All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside -
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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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state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States -
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Hull house was a settlement house in chicago
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the influence of sea power upon history 1660–1783 is a history of naval warfare
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a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal" -
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The Spanish American War was an armed conflict between Spain and the United States in 1898
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affairs initially used to refer to the policy that allow for a system of trade in China open to all countries equally
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the novel portrays the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities
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ford would build some 15 million Model T cars
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the national association for the advancement of colored people
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allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary
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lusitania sinking occurred on friday, 7 may 1915 during the first World War
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the russian revolution was a period of political and social revolution across the territory of the russian empire,
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It was fought from september 26, 1918, until the armistice of november 11, 1918, a total of 47 days
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the treaty of versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end
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the prohibition of alcohol in the United States
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prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex
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the promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism or anarchism by a society or state
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known as the state of tennessee v
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murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang that occurred on Saint Valentine's Day
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also known as the great crash was a major american stock market crash that occurred in the fall of 1929
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a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States
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4,000 banks failed during the one year of 1933 alone
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a united states federal law of the new deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses
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one of two agencies that provide deposit insurance to depositors in U.S.
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period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s
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independent agency of the U.S. federal government that administers social security
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Arab–Israeli War was the second and final stage of the 1947–49 Palestine war -
national holiday in Vietnam observed on 2 September, commemorating President Hồ Chí Minh reading the Declarations of independence of Vietnam
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Hồ Chí Minh led the Việt Minh independence movement from 1941 onward
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known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America
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new act established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote -
a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957 -
First televised presidential debate
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Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution
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United States Government providing international social and economic development assistance
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a set of policies and practices within a government or organization seeking to increase the representation of particular groups based on their gender, race, sexuality, creed or nationality in areas in which they are underrepresented such as education and employment -
assassinated early in his presidency and Cuban missile crisis
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1 month, 4 day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union
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served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963
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attempt to keep his inaugural promise of "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" and stop the desegregation of schools, stood at the door of the auditorium as if to block the entry of two African American students -
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He assumed the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
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authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia
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prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin -
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conflict came from the intercommunal violence in Mandatory Palestine between Israelis and Arabs from 1920 and erupted into full-scale hostilities -
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting -
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President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated distinguished civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to be the first African American justice to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States -
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was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War
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was the Vietnam War mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in Sơn Tịnh District
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US policy of withdrawing its troops
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member of the Republican Party, representative and senator from California
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President Richard Nixon created the EPA to fix national guidelines and to monitor and enforce them -
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regular summit meetings and negotiations over arms control and other bilateral agreements -
he previously served as a Georgia State Senator from 1963 to 1967 and as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975
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prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or other education program that receives federal money -
normalizing relations with the communist People's Republic of China -
provide a framework to conserve and protect endangered and threatened species and their habitats -
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federal law intended to check the U.S. president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress
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the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong on 30 April 1975
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encourage commercial banks and savings associations to help meet the needs of borrowers in all segments of their communities, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods -
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Southern Baptist Convention experienced an intense struggle for control of the organization -
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the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and became a highly influential voice of modern conservatism
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also known as the Berlin Wall Speech, was a speech delivered by United States President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987 -
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United States -
on 9 November 1989 was a pivotal event in world history which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe -
an American politician, diplomat and businessman who served as the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993
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the process in 1990 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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the process of internal disintegration within the Soviet Union -
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King was beaten by LAPD officers during his arrest, after a high-speed chase, for driving while intoxicated on I-210 -
served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 200
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legislative agenda advocated for by the Republican Party -
Simpson was acquitted of both counts of murder on October 3 of the same year -
was impeached by the United States House of Representatives of the 105th United States Congress on December 19, 1998 for "high crimes and misdemeanors" -
is a backronym for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism -
international military campaign launched by the United States government following the September 11 attacks -
member of the Republican Party, Bush previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000
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series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Wahhabi terrorist group Al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001 -
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the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein
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Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging -
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