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A policy of resettling eastern Indian tribes on lands west of the Mississippi River.
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Telegram from German Foreign Minister Arnold Zimmermann to the German ambassador to Mexico pledging a Mexican German alliance against the United States, which brought the United States into World War I.
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Blanket search warrants used by English customs collectors in the colonies to try to catch suspected smugglers. These writs did not require any form of prior evidence to justify searches, which the colonies viewed as yet another imperial violation of fundamental English liberties.
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Legislation establishing mandatory insurance to be carried by employers to cover on the job injuries to their workers, it was a reform that provided protection to workers while also lowering the risk to employers.
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The meeting between President Franklin Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet premier Joseph Stalin at Yalta in the Russian Crimea in February 1945 to determine the post World War II world order.
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The leader of radical abolitionism, Garrison sought immediate freedom for slaves without compensation to their owners.
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An amendment to an 1846 appropriations bill that would have forbade slavery from any territory acquired from Mexico. The amendment passed the House twice but was defeated in the Senate.
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An organization led by Frances Willard to stop the abuse of alcohol, it joined forces with other groups in the movement for the prohibition of alcohol to reduce such problems as wife abuse.
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Secretary of State for Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, and advocate of a vigorous expansionism. He is perhaps best known for the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867 for $7. 2 million, an act labeled "Seward's Folly. "
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