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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 ...
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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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  • politician. From 1946 to 1952 he was the first official Secretary-General ... organize multinational troops to respond to the invasion of Korea in 1950 ...
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  • historical materials of every President of the United States since Herbert Hoover. Presidential libraries began with the thirty-second U.S. President ...
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  • October 24, 1830 – May 19, 1917) was among the first female attorneys in ... Victoria Woodhull) to run for President of the United States. Additionally ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 – November 18, 1886) was a politician of the United States who served as the twenty-first President. Arthur ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Alien and Sedition Acts were four laws passed by the United States ... The most controversial of the four statutes was the Sedition Act, ...
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  • have succeeded Johnson as president of the United States upon Johnson ... Andrew Johnson became President of the United States following the ...
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  • Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the thirteenth president of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853, and the ...
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  • Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the twenty-third president of the United States. Serving one term from 1889 to 1893 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Albion Woodbury Small (May 11, 1854 – March 24, 1926) founded the ... Albion Woodbury Small was born in Buckfield, Maine, the son of Reverend ...
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  • The Bronze Star Medal is a United States Armed Forces individual military ... The award recognizes acts of heroism performed in ground combat if ...
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  • The American Colonization Society was founded in Liberia 1816 by Robert ... The society held close control over the development of Liberia until ...
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  • | 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 ...
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  • The Labor-Management Relations Act, commonly known as the Taft-Hartley ... The act forbade jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts. Employers ...
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