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1 day ago · Federalists were, as a rule, more concerned with maintaining a positive trade relationship with Britain than national honor. They resented any suggestions of invading Canada as attacks on an innocent country. Major anti-war Federalists included Josiah Quincy and Daniel Webster, who would become a close political ally of Clay’s a decade later ...
1 day ago · The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 were enacted by a Federalist-controlled Congress to suppress dissent and curb immigration during a time of political tension. They were controversial and ...
5 days ago · Anti-Federalists Oppose Slavery Provisions in Constitution. Slavery was one of the most divisive issues in the debates over whether or not to ratify the Constitution. Although the constitution banned the importation of slaves beginning in 1808, it did not restrict the continued use and ownership of slaves, or the slave trade within the southern ...
2 days ago · The Confederate States of America ( CSA ), commonly referred to as the Confederate States ( C.S. ), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway [1] republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865. [8] The Confederacy comprised eleven U.S. states that declared secession and warred ...
1 day ago · The United States House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a bill that would expand the federal definition of anti-Semitism, despite opposition from civil liberties groups.. The bill ...
4 days ago · The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ( Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, [a] and national origin. [4] It prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements ...
3 days ago · American anti-communist propaganda of the 1950s, specifically addressing the entertainment industry. McCarthyism, also known as the Second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of alleged communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the ...
