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... 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 1860s, first by Austria and Prussia and later ... 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 industrial capa...

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... reason. During the Stamp Act crisis, Americans argued that there was a difference between a tax for revenue and a tax for the regulation of trade—Parliament, the Americans said, lacked the authority to pass ... 2,664 applicants) for African American, Asian, Native American, and Latino applicants, and the school established lower academic requirements for these individuals th...

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... weather pattern occasionally moved as far north as Nebraska and the Dakotas. Dust storms in 19 35 carried away wheat—half of the crop in Kansas, one- fourth in Oklahoma, and the entire Nebraska planting. ... 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...

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... 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 necessary so that the U.S. fleet could participate easily ... In- dochina and joined the Axis powers as a result of the Tripar- tite Pact. In April 1941, the Japanese signed a neutrality agreement with the Soviet Union and be...

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... Nicaragua would be a suitable site for a transisthmian canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. However, after American adventurer William Walker briefly took control of Nicaragua in the 1 850 s ... supported anti-Sandinista rebels known as the Con- tras. During the ensuing Contra War of the 1980s, the Nicaraguan economy deteriorated because of warfare and an American...

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... 1894 at the American Bankers As- sociation meeting by a banker from New York and another from Baltimore, was known as the Baltimore Plan and rested on the idea that financial and currency stability ... early 1800s, changes in the economy con- vinced many Americans that educational reform was needed. The growth of the cash economy and the withering away of the barter and...

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... American Bar Asso- ciation [ABA] and the American Association of Law Schools [AALS] wanted to excluded immigrants because they did not espouse the values of the dominant Anglo-Saxon Protes- tants.) ... financial market stability and price stability. The federal funds rate stands at historically low levels in an attempt to foster a sustained re- covery in the American economy...

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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 ... destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet and seize the American colony of the Philip- pines. The attack on Pearl Harbor was the first step in the plan, and with it came American entry...

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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 56 3 Panama Canal Treaty of 1903 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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... 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, 2001. Available: ... municipal bonds, 469 as major arteries for commerce, 388 transportation policy, 486–487 U.S. right to build across Central America, 143 See also Erie Canal; Panama Canal; P...

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