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Jul 17, 2017 · Thomas Jefferson’s Democratic-Republicans, who believed in limited powers for the federal government, had held the presidency for 16 years, since Jefferson’s 1800 defeat of Federalist John Adams.
May 26, 2016 · Krakatoa's 1883 eruption in Indonesia caused global cooling nearly five years later, even though it ejected less material into the atmosphere than Tambora.
Jun 1, 2022 · What today we’d characterize as extreme poverty was until a few centuries ago the condition of almost every human on Earth. In 1820, some 94 percent of humans lived on less than $2 a day.
Jul 12, 2012 · When U.S. General William Hull assembled a force of about 2,000 men and led them to Detroit, the jumping-off point for an intended assault on nearby Fort Malden in Upper Canada, the British found...
Compare the lives of people 200 years ago and people today. Evaluate how changes in household tools, communication, transportation, recreation, and technology have changed the way people live and work.
Offering a comment on the American Constitution as seen in today's perspective, requires an initial glance at its historical context. The document drawn up in those four months of debate 200 years ago was designed to strengthen what central government there then was.
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May 7, 2024 · Two hundred years ago today, Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" - a vision of peace and fraternity - premiered in Vienna, Austria.
Dec 2, 2021 · When French revolutionaries stormed the Bastille prison in 1789 in pursuit of liberty, equality, and fraternity (and weapons), they could not have imagined how far democratic political rights would have spread a mere 200 years later.
Jun 26, 2017 · On July 4, 1817, work began on an engineering marvel that, despite early derision, would become a symbol of New York’s political ascendancy.
