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Political history of the United States
PactomaniaA 1955 article in The New York Times introduced the word Pactomania to describe a specific historical period. This term captured the intense activity of…
Slave states and free statesIn 1619, twenty and odd enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia, marking the legal establishment of slavery across all Thirteen Colonies.
Compromise of 1877On the morning of the 2nd of March 1877, President pro tempore Thomas W. Ferry announced that Rutherford B. Hayes had been elected president by an electoral…
Nullification crisisIn 1787, the United States Constitution was written with a tension between state and federal power that would never fully resolve.