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... Stock Exchange, 19 21 19 71. New York: Weybright and Talley, 19 72. See also Vo lume 1: Nasdaq; New York Stock Exchange. American Stock Exchange 11 The American Economy: A Historical Encyclopedia Aviation An ... (AFL-CIO), 10 American Inventors Protection Act of 19 99, 10 American Revolution (17 75 17 83), 10 American Stock Exchange (AMEX), 11 American System, 1...

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... Canada, opened up the American industrial and agricultural heart- land to oceangoing vessels. A series of canals, dams, and locks allows ships to travel the Great Lakes all the way to Chicago. Other major ... Mexico, Oklahoma, and Te xas. Various areas were affected from year to year during the “dirty thirties,” as the weather pattern occasionally moved as far north as Nebraska...

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... le 1 Major land acquisitions Year of acquisition State cessions 17 81 18 02 Louisiana Purchase 18 03 Transcontinental Treaty (Spain) 18 19 Oregon 18 46 Mexican -American War 18 48 Texas 18 50 Gadsden ... numerous reasons, mainly to achieve higher standards, establish standardization, and exclude immigrants from the field. (The American Bar Asso- ciation [ABA] and the American...

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... peculiar to the southern states; as are hitherto Lead & Coal. Flax and Hemp are or may be raised in greater abun- dance there, than in the More Northern states, and the Wool of Virginia is said ... navigation aids with federally paid air controllers, became as vital to the airlines as federal land grants had been for the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads in the 18 60s...

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... otherwise, revert to the Republic of Panama, under any contracts or concessions, with said Wyse, the Universal Panama Canal Company, the Panama Railroad Company and the New Panama Canal Company. The ... Purchase Treaty 563 Panama Canal Treaty of 19 03 The construction of the Panama Canal opened up trade between the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans for the United States as w...

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... Siry References LaFeber, Walter. The American Search for Opportunity, 18 65 19 13. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 19 93. See also Vo lume 1: Panama and the Panama Canal; Volume 2 (Documents): Panama Canal Treaty ... when the United States emerged from the Spanish -American War as a power in the Caribbean and the Pacific. A canal across Central America seemed neces...

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... and gained a reputation as a war hero during the Spanish- American War (18 98). Roosevelt became president in Sep- tember 19 01 after McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist at the Buffalo Pan -American ... Much the same has happened for Jay Gould, who was once regarded as the prototype of a robber baron. Matthew Josephson in The Robber Barons: The Great American Ca...

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... guarding eastern approaches to the Isthmus of Panama and later to the Panama Canal. Addition- ally, the United States feared the potential annexation of the islands by foreign powers in the 18 60s, ... suffer a significant attack on its industrial base. Warfare ravaged Eu- rope and Japan but American factories emerged from the war unscathed. World War II reduced the indust...

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... of the first veterans’ benefits packages passed after World War I. The act gave disabled veterans of the Great War monthly educa- tion assistance allowances as well as federal grants for reha- bilitation ... 600 bills regarding veterans and their educational welfare. The enactment of the GI Bill was attributable, in part, to a nationwide campaign for its passage. The American Le...

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... http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/page.cfm? ID=2387. American Economic Association. http://www.vanderbilt. edu/AEA/; accessed January 15 , 2003. “ARPA-DARPA: The History of the Name.” April 18 , 20 01. Available: ... December 21, 2002. “DARPA over the Years.” April 18 , 20 01. Available: http://www.darpa.mil/; accessed September 17 , 20 01. DARPA. “Technology Transition.” Jan...

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