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Podczas kampanii prezydenckiej w 1972 włamywaczy, przywiązane do Nixon w białym domu, zostały złowione, Instalacja urządzenia podsłuch w kwaterze głównej Partii Demokratycznej w kompleksu Watergate w Waszyngtonie, D. C. rewelacje z białego domu wysiłki aby utrudnić dochodzenie w sprawie przerwy w, nieprawidłowości finansowych, i wykorzystanie agencji rządowych celów partyzant doprowadziły prezydenta Nixona do dymisji w 1974.
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Jednostki pomocnicze kobiet do U. S. Army.
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Russian satellite that successfully orbited the earth in 1957, prompting Americans to question their own values and educational system. The hysteria over Soviet technological superiority led to the 1958 National Defense Education Act.
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A term for hard coin, such as gold or silver, that can also back and give a fixed point of valuation to paper currencies.
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Once France formally entered the War for Independence in 1778 on the American side, the British had to concern themselves with protecting such vital holdings as their sugar islands in the Caribbean region. Needing to disperse their troop strength, the idea of the Southern strategy was to tap into a perceived reservoir of loyalist numbers in the southern colonies. Reduced British forces could employ these loyalists as troops in subduing the rebels and as civil officials in reestablishing royal governments. The plan failed for many reasons, including a shortfall of loyalist support and an inability to hold ground once conquered in places like South Carolina.
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An ideology based upon the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin, it justified the concentration of wealth and lack of governmental protection of the weak through the ideas of natural selection and survival of the fittest.
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Religious dissenters from England who believed that the state supported Anglican church, or Church of England, was too corrupt to be reformed. Thus, like the Pilgrims, they often migrated elsewhere to form their own religious communities. See nonseparatists.
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The chemical laden fog caused by automobile engines, a serious problem in southern California. Like nuclear waste and the shrinking water supply, it reflects the problems associated with the rapid demographic shift to the West in modem times.
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A political party founded by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson to combat Alexander Hamilton's fiscal policies.
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At the time of the American Revolution, republicanism referred to the concept that sovereignty, or ultimate political authority, is vested in the people--the citizens of the nation. As such, republican governments not only derive their authority from the consent of the governed but also predicate themselves on the principles of rule by law and legislation by elected representatives.
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