The road to voting for people with disabilities has been a long one. Thanks to the Americans With Disabilities Act, individuals with disabilities have the same rights and responsibilities to...
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The War of 1812 showed Britain even more that America was an independent and separate nation from them. President James Madison (1809-1817) led America in this war and wanted to…
The United Nations began on October 24, 1945. The countries who began it were France, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, the United States and many others who wanted…
Ten years before the Vietnam War ended there was huge need for the U.S. to send in 280,000 more troops into Vietnam. The Pentagon came to an agreement about this…
On November 20, 1789, New Jersey voted in agreement with the Bill of Rights. New Jersey became the first state to vote in the Bill of Right, which was the…
Jim Crow laws were made in the late 1800s to separate the black people from the white people. Many people were against this segregation of black people, and the Interstate…
On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the 16th president of the United States by winning only 40% of the popular vote. He was the first Republican to win the…
On October 30, 1775, the Continental Congress picked 7 men to serve on the naval committee. The naval committee had to build up a fleet of ships and find men…
I have always wondered about the Unknown Soldier who was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington, D.C., so here is the story. About 77,000 United States servicemen had been…
There have always been people who are against slavery. In the early years of our nation they were called abolitionists, and Abraham Lincoln was an abolitionist. He was lawyer from…