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- and educator. Serving as a professor of economics at Harvard University ... in determining economic activity and the consequent health and prosperity ...7 KB (1,057 words) - 05:09, 9 April 2024
- The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government ... Arguably the single most important piece of legislation passed by ...10 KB (1,533 words) - 06:38, 16 November 2022
- A Congressional Gold Medal is an award bestowed by the United States ... is personally awarded by the President of the United States (executive branch ...10 KB (1,549 words) - 19:21, 15 May 2020
- politician. From 1946 to 1952 he was the first official Secretary-General ... organize multinational troops to respond to the invasion of Korea in 1950 ...8 KB (1,239 words) - 18:30, 2 May 2023
- historical materials of every President of the United States since Herbert Hoover. Presidential libraries began with the thirty-second U.S. President ...19 KB (2,492 words) - 22:38, 30 November 2022
- October 24, 1830 – May 19, 1917) was among the first female attorneys in ... Victoria Woodhull) to run for President of the United States. Additionally ...11 KB (1,718 words) - 08:56, 27 September 2023
- Abraham Lincoln. He was a staunch supporter of the Union and of the emancipation ... Hay was born in 1838, in Salem, Indiana, of Scottish ancestry, raised ...10 KB (1,420 words) - 06:55, 8 April 2024
- Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 – November 18, 1886) was a politician of the United States who served as the twenty-first President. Arthur ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 18:32, 8 December 2023
- leader, politician, and the ninth President of the United States (1841). He served as the first governor of the Indiana Territory and later as a U.S ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 10:57, 9 May 2023
- 1987) was an American soldier and diplomat of the mid-twentieth century. ... in Kansas City as a youth and graduated from the United States Military Academy ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 01:07, 9 November 2022
- The Alien and Sedition Acts were four laws passed by the United States ... The most controversial of the four statutes was the Sedition Act, ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 18:22, 21 July 2023
- have succeeded Johnson as president of the United States upon Johnson ... Andrew Johnson became President of the United States following the ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 09:47, 28 September 2023
- Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the thirteenth president of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853, and the ...15 KB (2,217 words) - 17:59, 9 November 2022
- Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the twenty-third president of the United States. Serving one term from 1889 to 1893 ...14 KB (2,048 words) - 09:55, 28 September 2023
- Albion Woodbury Small (May 11, 1854 – March 24, 1926) founded the ... Albion Woodbury Small was born in Buckfield, Maine, the son of Reverend ...7 KB (1,052 words) - 17:49, 19 December 2022
- honor of George Washington, the first President of the United States, who was born on February 22, 1732 (by the Gregorian calendar). Since the Uniform ...19 KB (2,531 words) - 23:00, 3 May 2023
- The Bronze Star Medal is a United States Armed Forces individual military ... The award recognizes acts of heroism performed in ground combat if ...11 KB (1,788 words) - 04:34, 22 November 2023
- The American Colonization Society was founded in Liberia 1816 by Robert ... The society held close control over the development of Liberia until ...11 KB (1,715 words) - 03:32, 24 July 2023
- | order=7th Vice President of the United States | term_start=March 4, 1825 ... 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was a leading United States senator, vice president ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 16:58, 5 April 2024
- The Labor-Management Relations Act, commonly known as the Taft-Hartley ... The act forbade jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts. Employers ...12 KB (1,867 words) - 02:51, 27 February 2023
- and anthropologist, who developed two of the nation's most notable ... whose ancestors could be tracked down to the first settlers of America ...9 KB (1,359 words) - 10:26, 11 April 2024
- Perjury is the act of lying or making verifiably false statements ... Perjury is the giving of false testimony under oath. The word comes ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 17:57, 26 March 2023
- Thaddeus Stevens (April 4, 1792 – August 11, 1868), was a member ... to hold a steady job and who abandoned the family before dying in the ...9 KB (1,431 words) - 02:49, 19 April 2023
- | order=19th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1877 ... military leader, and the 19th President of the United States (1877 – 1881 ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 18:25, 22 December 2022
- Teapot Dome was an oil reserve scandal that began during the administration ... The Teapot Dome oil field received its name because of a rock resembling ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- writer, political philosopher and one of the Founding Fathers of the ... Born to privilege and wealth, Hancock used his money to foster the ...9 KB (1,251 words) - 05:15, 3 August 2022
- government official. Dana was in many ways the most brilliant journalist ... criticism of his abilities as President of the United States. Dana was in ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
- The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations assists ... ==Organizational Structure and Pattern of Work== ECOSOC has 54 members ...13 KB (1,735 words) - 11:44, 3 May 2023
- diplomat and conservative politician. He was the fourth secretary-general of ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- Joseph Jenkins Roberts (March 15, 1809 – February 24, 1876) was ... During his tenure as president, Roberts pushed for European and United ...15 KB (2,161 words) - 07:38, 27 February 2023
- 1909) was a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who long ... and I am glad to know that the President of the United States is a Christian ...9 KB (1,410 words) - 07:39, 24 January 2023
- 1869), was an American lawyer, politician, United States Attorney General in ... quot; on the side at [[President of the United States|President]] Andrew ...16 KB (2,329 words) - 23:57, 12 February 2024
- American statesman, who served as Secretary of War, Governor-General of the ... society that afforded many contacts for the rest of his life. He graduated ...14 KB (1,981 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- figure who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight ... One of his policy contributions was what became known as brinkmanship ...14 KB (1,941 words) - 05:09, 3 August 2022
- 1955) was an American newspaper baron, owner of the Chicago Tribune, and popularly ... A leading opponent of United States entry into World War II and of ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 02:14, 16 December 2022
- The Compromise of 1850 was a series of laws that attempted to resolve ... The measures, designed by Whig Senator Henry Clay (who failed to get ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 00:22, 8 January 2024
- A United States National Monument is a protected area that is similar to a U.S. national park with the exception that the President of the United ...19 KB (2,589 words) - 16:14, 11 November 2022
- American politician who served as Governor of Kansas from 1933-1937. He was ... Landon was born in 1887, to John Manuel and Anne Mossman Landon. The ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 16:52, 20 July 2023
- She is known for her work to improve the living and working conditions ... In 1886, she joined the Women's Educational and Industrial Union ...8 KB (1,107 words) - 16:13, 7 November 2022
- inventor, painter and architect who designed the United States Capitol. He ... interest and discernible talent in "the arts of design," to employ ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 20:42, 13 May 2023
- Bleeding Kansas, sometimes referred to in history as Bloody Kansas ... In all, approximately 63 people died in Bleeding Kansas. The term ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 18:13, 31 October 2023
- The Silver Star is the third highest military decoration that can ... It ranks fifth in the precedence of military awards behind the Medal ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 22:08, 29 January 2023
- War I and World War II (finally supporting the latter conflict only after ... He believed steadfastly in the principles that he attested to. He ...11 KB (1,518 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- executive, and philanthropist. He introduced the concept of “salesmanship” ... money for cancer research and promoting the federal government’s role ...11 KB (1,655 words) - 01:19, 11 May 2021
- secretary of state, and fifth president of the United States. He was the last ... began his term as the new president of the United States. ...18 KB (2,572 words) - 16:07, 8 February 2023
- philosopher, and diplomat, an advocate of peace through education. The ... L. Butler and Mary Murray Butler, daughter of Nicholas Murray, a clergyman ...14 KB (2,044 words) - 23:32, 14 November 2022
- 20, 1893), was a Louisiana-born general for the Confederate Army during the ... Beauregard was the first prominent Confederate general. He commanded ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 06:06, 18 November 2022
- The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from ... With the ratification of the Articles of Confederation in 1781, the ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 17:39, 25 January 2023
- Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the seventeenth President of the United States (1865–1869), succeeding to the presidency ...20 KB (2,946 words) - 17:51, 27 July 2023
- Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii (September 2, 1838 – November 11, 1917 ... it would prove to be eventful. She was the last monarch of the Kingdom ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 15:42, 7 December 2022
- The Burning of Washington is the name given to the burning of Washington ... The White House was burned. Only the exterior walls remained, and ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 18:46, 22 November 2023
- The Kellogg-Briand Pact, also known as the Pact of Paris after the ... In its original form, the Pact of Paris was a renunciation of war ...7 KB (1,036 words) - 17:20, 5 October 2022
- Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 - July 9, 1850) was an American military leader and the twelfth president of the United States. Taylor had ...16 KB (2,480 words) - 10:32, 7 June 2023
- broadcasting executive who served as the president of Columbia Broadcasting ... Stanton was decisive and passionate in his pursuit of the development ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 05:09, 9 April 2024
- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (October 29, 1938 - ) is the current President ... For anyone to become head of their state is a significant achievement ...17 KB (2,476 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- his 1980 campaign, she was nominated as the U.S. ambassador to the United ... Jeane Duane Jordan was born in Duncan, Oklahoma, the daughter of an ...14 KB (1,976 words) - 01:05, 9 February 2023
- Watergate is a general term for a series of political scandals, which ... Investigations conducted by the FBI, Senate Watergate Committee, House ...17 KB (2,600 words) - 14:08, 31 May 2022
- Father's Day is a celebration inaugurated in the early twentieth ... celebrated in a religious fashion. In the Catholic tradition, it is ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 12:56, 21 January 2023
- (May 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849), was the wife of President James Madison ... North Carolina, on May 20, 1768, a daughter of John Payne, farmer and starch ...12 KB (1,850 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
- a political sociologist, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and the ... was born on March 18, 1922, in New York, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants ...12 KB (1,665 words) - 10:15, 26 January 2023
- Samuel Jones Tilden (February 9, 1814 – August 4, 1886) was the ... New York University (then officially named the University of the City of ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 20:20, 1 December 2023
- 1, 1918) was an American educator and one of the leaders of the Kindergarten ... and at a young age became familiar with the work of Friedrich Froebel ...8 KB (1,080 words) - 04:10, 6 November 2022
- Spiro Theodore Agnew (November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was the thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States serving under President ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 15:44, 27 April 2023
- was an American statesman and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State ... his speech on U.S. policy toward Asia before the National Press Club in January ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- The Monroe Doctrine is a United States doctrine which, on December ... The three main concepts of the doctrine—separate spheres of influence ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 21:11, 9 November 2022
- Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (December 13, 1818 – July 16, 1882) was the ... inaugurated as the sixteenth President of the United States on March 4, 1861. ...10 KB (1,571 words) - 16:14, 7 November 2022
- 22, 1890 – January 22, 1995) married into the Kennedy family and together ... and then Senator, was elected President of the United States in 1960, and ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 19:16, 16 December 2022
- 16, 2016) was an Egyptian diplomat who was the sixth secretary-general of ... for not responding quickly enough in the face of tragedies like the ...12 KB (1,720 words) - 19:59, 20 November 2023
- The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 in United States created the territories ... each selected a candidate for president of the United States. ...12 KB (1,759 words) - 02:44, 5 October 2022
- [[Image:Eisenhower in the Oval Office.jpg|thumb|300px|President Dwight ... was first used publicly by President of the United States (and former General ...14 KB (2,001 words) - 16:24, 13 September 2023
- John Jacob Astor (July 17, 1763 - March 29, 1848) became the first ... class family in Waldorf, Germany. He was the youngest of three sons born ...8 KB (1,194 words) - 07:02, 8 April 2024
- John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the thirtieth President of the United States. Famed for his taciturn New England ...18 KB (2,751 words) - 18:37, 25 November 2023
- John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American lawyer, diplomat, congressman, and sixth president of the United States ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 03:49, 3 May 2024
- Robert Alphonso Taft (September 8, 1889 - July 31, 1953), of the Taft ... Taft was the grandson of Attorney General and Secretary of War Alphonso ...14 KB (2,139 words) - 02:17, 16 December 2022
- The Fourteen Points were listed in a speech delivered by President Woodrow Wilson of the United States to a Joint session of the Congress on ...13 KB (1,920 words) - 06:38, 1 April 2024
- , also known as Madame Sun Yat-sen, was one of the most prominent women in ... In September, 1949, when the Communists founded the People’s Republic ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 02:00, 27 February 2023
- Carl Robert Byoir (June 24, 1888 – February 3, 1957) was one of ... Before he was 18 years old, Byoir became the editor of the Waterloo Times ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 00:54, 13 January 2023
- was an American journalist and publisher, the grandson of publisher Joseph ... Patterson inherited wealth, experience, and the ability to succeed in the ...10 KB (1,527 words) - 00:44, 11 August 2022
- is an annual declared month that highlights the contributions of women to ... The commemoration began in 1978 as "Women's History day ...18 KB (2,541 words) - 23:27, 17 May 2023
- 1821) was a Chilean general, considered one of the founders of independent ... After the Spanish Reconquista ("Reconquest"), he continued ...13 KB (1,978 words) - 19:38, 9 May 2024
- Independence Hall is a United States national landmark located in ... The building is now part of the larger Independence National Historical ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 12:50, 4 March 2024
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther ... King was the chief spokesperson for nonviolent activism in the Civil ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 08:36, 10 March 2023
- The Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed in 1820 between the ... This compromise was viewed in its day as one of the most important ...9 KB (1,362 words) - 19:18, 9 November 2022
- The Sunshine Policy was the foreign policy of South Korea towards ... policy in a vastly improved climate from the authoritarian South Korean ...14 KB (2,030 words) - 13:54, 28 April 2023
- issues that are generally shocking to the public. Generally, muckraking ... Given their name by Theodore Roosevelt when he likened their work ...11 KB (1,585 words) - 17:31, 11 May 2020
- with North Korea, Russia, China, Japan, and the United States. The Cold War ... In the midst of that awful tension, shrugging off a humiliating experience ...21 KB (3,033 words) - 10:44, 10 November 2023
- (March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the twelfth United States Attorney ... Unlike Marshall, who had supported a broad role for the federal government ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 21:33, 16 April 2023
- American nurse and social worker, active in the late nineteenth and early ... German-Jewish middle-class family. She was the third of four children born ...8 KB (1,096 words) - 01:43, 26 October 2022
- was a Seychellois politician. Committed to the principles of democracy, he ... James Mancham was the eldest son of Richard and Evelyn (née Tirant ...16 KB (2,221 words) - 16:04, 8 February 2023
- Mexico CityWhig candidate for President of the United States, 1852 ... passed over its own incumbent President of the United States, Millard Fillmore ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 15 May 2023
- and oceanography. He was influential in the development of modern systematic ... His name is honored with the Alexander Agassiz Medal established in ...9 KB (1,298 words) - 09:40, 15 May 2021
- The Four Freedoms are goals famously articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the State of the Union Address he delivered ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 12:27, 22 May 2021
- (November 10, 1878 - June 14, 1946) was President of Guatemala from February ... his post when he was forced to resign, but the regime replacing him was short ...15 KB (2,332 words) - 06:28, 6 May 2024
- Clare Boothe Luce (April 10, 1903 – October 9, 1987) was a United ... The tragic death of her only daughter marked a turning point that ...15 KB (2,324 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
- Thelma Catherine Ryan Nixon (March 16, 1912 – June 22, 1993) was ... Nixon was always supportive of her husband even during the troubled ...17 KB (2,707 words) - 09:04, 18 November 2022
- ; ca 1897 – October 23, 2003) was the youngest of the three Soong ... Her experiences in the United States made her an able spokeswoman ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 02:00, 27 February 2023
- and a women's rights activist, and the first woman in the United ... Blackwell was born in Bristol, England, the third of nine children ...7 KB (1,033 words) - 16:15, 13 February 2024
- The White House is the residence and official office of the president of the United States. The White House is located on 18 acres of land at ...21 KB (3,325 words) - 17:23, 4 May 2023
- was an American social worker and reformer, the pioneer of the social work ... on April 1, 1866 in Lexington, Kentucky, the second of seven children of ...11 KB (1,518 words) - 19:20, 14 February 2023
- The Trail of Tears refers to the forced relocation in 1838, of the ... This was caused by the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The Cherokee Trail ...16 KB (2,520 words) - 04:56, 1 May 2023
