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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › AbolitionismAbolitionism - Wikipedia

    15 hours ago · Religion. Opposition and resistance. Related. v. t. e. Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery was France in 1315, but it was later used in its colonies.

  2. 15 hours ago · 66000789 [8] Added to NRHP. 15 October 1966. USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She is the world's oldest commissioned naval warship still afloat. [9] [. Note 1] She was launched in 1797, one of six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act ...

    • 15 October 1966
    • 1797
    • Joshua Humphreys
    • Charlestown Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts
  3. 15 hours ago · v. t. e. Self-determination [1] refers to a people 's right to form its own political entity, and internal self-determination is the right to representative government with full suffrage. [2] [3] Self-determination is a cardinal principle in modern international law, binding, as such, on the United Nations as an authoritative interpretation of ...

  4. 15 hours ago · American Samoa [c] is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the island country of Samoa. [1] Centered on 14.3°S 170.7°W, it is east of the International Date Line and the Wallis and Futuna Islands, west of the Cook Islands, north of Tonga, and some 500 kilometers (310 mi) south of ...

    • 970 m (3,170 ft)
  5. 15 hours ago · Spanish Florida was established in the 1500s, when Spain laid claim to land explored by several expeditions across the future southeastern United States.The introduction of diseases to the indigenous peoples of Florida caused a steep decline in the original native population over the following century, and most of the remaining Apalachee and Tequesta peoples settled in a series of missions ...

    • 1816–1858
    • United States victory
    • Spanish Florida, Florida territory, Florida
  6. 15 hours ago · Historians led by Eli Heckscher have identified Mercantilism as the central economic policy for the empire before the shift to free trade in the 1840s. Mercantilism is an economic theory practice, commonly used in Britain, France and other major European nations from the 16th to the 18th century that promoted governmental regulation of a nation's economy for the purpose of augmenting state ...

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › ChristianityChristianity - Wikipedia

    15 hours ago · Christianity (/ k r ɪ s tʃ i ˈ æ n ɪ t i / or / k r ɪ s t i ˈ æ n ɪ t i /) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.It is the world's largest and most widespread religion with roughly 2.4 billion followers, comprising around 31.2% of the world population.

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