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  • The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award in the United States and is bestowed by the President of the United States. It ...
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  • The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency ... During the beginning of his term, Jackson was forced to confront the ...
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  • the distinguished office of President of the United States. ... president), as well as of the President of the United States seems to be properly ...
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  • nominee of the Democratic Party for President of the United States in 1848. His political position endorsed a Jeffersonian political philosophy. He believed ...
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  • The Radical Republicans were members of the Republican Party who were ... The Radical Republicans took a hard line against the Confederacy early ...
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  • The Treaty of Ghent, signed on December 24, 1814, in Ghent, Belgium ... Great Britain message from the President of the United States, transmitting ...
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  • April 10 1882 – May 14 1965) was Secretary of Labor for the twelve years ... Perkins was born in Boston, Massachusetts. The family moved to Worcester ...
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  • The Naval Support Facility Thurmont, popularly known as Camp David, is the rustic 125-acre mountain retreat of the President of the United States ...
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  • The Truman Doctrine was a proclamation by United States President ... Aid was agreed by the United States government to be given to both ...
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  • reformer and social activist, leader of the women's suffrage movement ... Woodlake, Kentucky and grew up at Ashland, the farm established by her great ...
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  • filled by the wife of the president of the United States, the title is sometimes taken to apply only to the wife of a sitting president, however ...
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  • referred to as Joe Brown, was a Governor of Georgia from 1857 to 1865, ... business dealings; acquiring great wealth at the misery of others, mainly convict ...
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  • The Fulbright Program including the Fulbright-Hays Program is a program ... Fulbright alumni around the world recognize the importance of continued ...
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  • wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States, and therefore is seen as the first First Lady of the United States although that ...
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  • February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ... Frankfurter was born in Vienna, Austria. His family emigrated to the ...
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  • The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is the oldest continuing ... The WCTU perceived alcoholism as a consequence of larger social problems ...
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  • | order=19th President of Liberia | term_start=January 3, 1944 ... (November 29, 1895 – July 23, 1971) was President of Liberia for more than ...
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  • John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth President of the United States. As the first vice president to succeed to the ...
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  • The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government ... Arguably the single most important piece of legislation passed by ...
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  • A Congressional Gold Medal is an award bestowed by the United States ... is personally awarded by the President of the United States (executive branch ...
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