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Gilded Age Politics and Issues in 1880
In: American History (general)
Although the two major parties agreed on almost every national issue excepting the tariff, the election of 1880 introduced important issues advocated by third parties. more...
In: US Civil War
Emancipation began as a gradual process that culminated in Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, starting a path toward full social and political equality. more...
Populism and the Omaha Platform of 1892
In: American History (general)
The Omaha Platform of the People's Party identified the two major political parties with corruption and indifference toward farmers and working class Americans. more...
The Westward Movement's Effect on Indians
In: American History (general)
The history of America is a history of westward migration from the Colonial Era to Manifest Destiny resulting in the populating of the Great Plains after the Civil War. more...
1950s and 1960s Main Streets Fuel Prosperity
As individual wages rose in the 1950s and products expanded, affordable consumer goods from food to clothing helped fuel a period of economic prosperity and well being. more...
Eisenhower and the Landslide Election of 1956
Ending the Korean War, achieving a budget surplus, and presiding over a period of increasing prosperity enabled Dwight D. Eisenhower to win over 57% of the vote in 1956. more...
Immigration and Catholicism in the 1800s
In: American History (general)
The influx of millions of Irish and German Catholics altered notions of Catholicism formed by the presence of a small Catholic minority since the Colonial period. more...
Why the Confederacy Lost in 1865
In: US Civil War
Although many factors contributed to Southern loss such as lack of industry and allies, the war was decided on the battlefields at places like Vicksburg and Gettysburg. more...
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An Examination of a Slave Girl about Poetry
In: Colonial America
By: Brian Deming
By: Peggy Hazelwood
Obama and the Rhetoric of Change
In: American History (general)
By: Marilyn Michaud
History and Meaning of Black Friday
In: American History (general)
By: Jeremy Perkins
Would JFK Have Withdrawn From Vietnam?
By: Lawrence Koppy
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