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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • and anthropologist, who developed two of the nation's most notable ... whose ancestors could be tracked down to the first settlers of America ...
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  • Perjury is the act of lying or making verifiably false statements ... Perjury is the giving of false testimony under oath. The word comes ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • | order=19th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1877 ... military leader, and the 19th President of the United States (1877 – 1881 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • writer, political philosopher and one of the Founding Fathers of the ... Born to privilege and wealth, Hancock used his money to foster the ...
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  • government official. Dana was in many ways the most brilliant journalist ... criticism of his abilities as President of the United States. Dana was in ...
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  • The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations assists ... ==Organizational Structure and Pattern of Work== ECOSOC has 54 members ...
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  • diplomat and conservative politician. He was the fourth secretary-general of ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...
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  • Joseph Jenkins Roberts (March 15, 1809 – February 24, 1876) was ... During his tenure as president, Roberts pushed for European and United ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 1869), was an American lawyer, politician, United States Attorney General in ... quot; on the side at [[President of the United States|President]] Andrew ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • figure who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight ... One of his policy contributions was what became known as brinkmanship ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • She is known for her work to improve the living and working conditions ... In 1886, she joined the Women's Educational and Industrial Union ...
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  • inventor, painter and architect who designed the United States Capitol. He ... interest and discernible talent in "the arts of design," to employ ...
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  • Bleeding Kansas, sometimes referred to in history as Bloody Kansas ... In all, approximately 63 people died in Bleeding Kansas. The term ...
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  • The Silver Star is the third highest military decoration that can ... It ranks fifth in the precedence of military awards behind the Medal ...
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  • War I and World War II (finally supporting the latter conflict only after ... He believed steadfastly in the principles that he attested to. He ...
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  • executive, and philanthropist. He introduced the concept of “salesmanship” ... money for cancer research and promoting the federal government’s role ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • philosopher, and diplomat, an advocate of peace through education. The ... L. Butler and Mary Murray Butler, daughter of Nicholas Murray, a clergyman ...
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  • 20, 1893), was a Louisiana-born general for the Confederate Army during the ... Beauregard was the first prominent Confederate general. He commanded ...
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  • The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from ... With the ratification of the Articles of Confederation in 1781, the ...
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  • Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the seventeenth President of the United States (1865–1869), succeeding to the presidency ...
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  • Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii (September 2, 1838 – November 11, 1917 ... it would prove to be eventful. She was the last monarch of the Kingdom ...
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