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2 days ago · The United States is relatively young by world standards, being less than 250 years old; it achieved its current size only in the mid-20th century. America was the first of the European colonies to separate successfully from its motherland, and it was the first nation to be established on the premise that sovereignty rests with its citizens and ...
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United States - Southern Culture, History, Economy: By far...
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The territory represented by the continental United States...
- Strengths and Weaknesses
After peaking in the 1950s, when 36 percent of American...
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Washington, D.C., city and capital of the United States of...
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The United States is a country in North America that is a...
- An Age of Reform
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5 days ago · At the beginning of the 20th century, fewer than 1,000 colleges with 160,000 students existed in the United States. Explosive growth in the number of colleges occurred at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries, supported in part by Congress' land grant programs.
2 days ago · W.E.B. Du Bois (born February 23, 1868, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, U.S.—died August 27, 1963, Accra, Ghana) was an American sociologist, historian, author, editor, and activist who was the most important Black protest leader in the United States during the first half of the 20th century.
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3 days ago · Date: 1947 - 1991. Participants: North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Soviet Union. United States. Warsaw Treaty Organization. Context: international relations. Major Events: Cuban missile crisis. Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. Berlin crisis of 1961. collapse of the Soviet Union. (Show more) Key People: Dean Acheson.
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3 days ago · The decades leading up to the Civil War witnessed many dramatic changes in the United States. To go back to the year 1815, America had been what we might call a third-world country. Most people then lived on isolated farmsteads. Their lives revolved around the weather and the hours of daylight. Many people grew their own food.
4 days ago · This summary of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century immigration describes the "new immigration" that originated from Southern and Eastern Europe. The essay also outlines American responses to the new wave of immigration, including some of the laws designed to restrict immigration that were adopted between 1880 and 1910.
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1 day ago · The colonial history of the United States covers the period of European colonization of North America from the early 16th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States after the Revolutionary War.
