Tag: America Legal History
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Spoils System
Spoils System in the United States Spoils System in the U.S. Legal History Summary The policy of awarding political or financial help with a government job. Abuses of the spoils system led to the passage in 1883 of the Pendleton Act, which created the Civil Service Commission to award […]
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Tet Offensive
Tet Offensive in the United States Tet Offensive in the U.S. Legal History Summary As American military and political leaders suggested victory in Vietnam was in sight, North Vietnam launched an offensive in January 1968 against every major South Vietnamese target. Although the United States […]
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Tet Offensive
Tet Offensive in the United States Tet Offensive in the U.S. Legal History Summary As American military and political leaders suggested victory in Vietnam was in sight, North Vietnam launched an offensive in January 1968 against every major South Vietnamese target. Although the United States […]
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Spirituals
Spirituals in the United States Spirituals in the U.S. Legal History Summary Religious songs composed by enslaved African Americans.
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Spirituals
Spirituals in the United States Spirituals in the U.S. Legal History Summary Religious songs composed by enslaved African Americans.
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Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev in the United States Nikita Khrushchev in the U.S. Legal History Summary Personable Soviet premier during Eisenhower’s presidential term. Khrushchev condemned Stalin’s purges and welcomed a melting of the Cold War, although he crushed a 1956 democratic uprising in Hungary.
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Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev in the United States Nikita Khrushchev in the U.S. Legal History Summary Personable Soviet premier during Eisenhower’s presidential term. Khrushchev condemned Stalin’s purges and welcomed a melting of the Cold War, although he crushed a 1956 democratic uprising in Hungary.
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Public Virtue
Public Virtue in the United States Public Virtue in the U.S. Legal History Summary A cornerstone of good citizenship in republican states, public virtue involved the subordination of individual self-interest to serving the greater good of the whole community. Revolutionary leaders believed […]
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Second New Deal
Second New Deal in the United States Second New Deal in the U.S. Legal History Summary The second stage of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s economic recovery and reform program, launched January 4, 1935.
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Second New Deal
Second New Deal in the United States Second New Deal in the U.S. Legal History Summary The second stage of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s economic recovery and reform program, launched January 4, 1935.
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Shays Rebellion
Shays Rebellion in the United States Shays Rebellion in the U.S. Legal History Summary Beset by a hard-hitting economic depression after the War of American Independence, these farmers from western Massachusetts finally rose up in rebellion against their state government in 1786 because they […]
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Shays Rebellion
Shays Rebellion in the United States Shays Rebellion in the U.S. Legal History Summary Beset by a hard-hitting economic depression after the War of American Independence, these farmers from western Massachusetts finally rose up in rebellion against their state government in 1786 because they […]
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Rage Militaire
Rage Militaire in the United States Rage Militaire in the U.S. Legal History Summary Meaning a passion for arms, the rage militaire characterized the attitudes of American colonists as the war with Great Britain began in 1775. When the ravages and deprivations of warfare became more […]
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Rage Militaire
Rage Militaire in the United States Rage Militaire in the U.S. Legal History Summary Meaning a passion for arms, the rage militaire characterized the attitudes of American colonists as the war with Great Britain began in 1775. When the ravages and deprivations of warfare became more […]
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Know Nothing Party
Know Nothing Party in the United States Know Nothing (American) Party (1856) Know Nothing Party in the U.S. Legal History Summary An anti-foreign, anti-Catholic political party that arose following massive Irish and Catholic immigration during the late 1840s. The Know Nothing party replaced […]