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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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... 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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... 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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... 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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... the Con- tras. During the ensuing Contra War of the 1 980 s, the Nicaraguan economy deteriorated because of warfare and an American embargo on Nicaraguan goods that began in 1 985 . In 1 987 , because ... and gained a reputation as a war hero during the Spanish- American War ( 189 8). Roosevelt became president in Sep- tember 1901 after McKinley was assassinated by an anar...

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... of the colony, the United States became increasingly interested in acquiring the islands as a strategic asset guarding eastern approaches to the Isthmus of Panama and later to the Panama Canal. ... is the only major industrialized nation that did not suffer a significant attack on its industrial base. Warfare ravaged Eu- rope and Japan but American factories emerged from the...

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... 189 4 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 180 0s, 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 a...

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... cessions 1 781 – 180 2 Louisiana Purchase 180 3 Transcontinental Treaty (Spain) 181 9 Oregon 184 6 Mexican -American War 184 8 Texas 185 0 Gadsden Purchase 185 3 Alaska 186 7 Land Policies from the Civil War through ... between 181 0 and 186 0 alone. The remarkable character of this feature of American slavery can be illustrated by briefly comparing the demographics of slavery in Amer...

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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 ... Panama, whose decisions as to such damages shall be final and whose awards as to such damages shall be paid solely by the United States. No part of the work on said Canal or the...

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... 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; Panama Canal Treaty Capitalism, ... http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/page.cfm? ID=2 387 . American Economic Association. http://www.vanderbilt. edu/AEA/; accessed January 15, 2003. “ARPA-DARPA: The History of t...

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