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 United States HISTORY
The issue of slavery in the territories came to a head with the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which repealed the Missouri Compromise and left the question of slavery in those territories to be decided by the settlers themselves.
In the 1920s, the United States had little enthusiasm left for crusades, either for democracy abroad or for reform at home; a rare instance of idealism in action was the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928), an antiwar accord negotiated on behalf of the United States by Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg.
The United States was brought actively into the war by the Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii on 7 December 1941.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The United States of America
In examining the constitutionality of a state law one is to assume that the state legislature has power to pass all acts whatever, unless they are prohibited by the Constitution of the United States or by the constitution of the state.
It also provides that the citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states; for the return of fugitives from justice and for the admission of new states.
The slave State of Missouri promptly attempted to colonize the new territory, and settled at a place which was called Atchison in honour of a pro-slavery Senator of Missouri.
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 governpub.com: Founding Documents>>United States Constitution
The Constitution of the United States' is the supreme law of the United States of America.
The larger states argued in favor of proportional representation in the legislature--that is, each state should have voting power according to its population, calling equal representation, "confessedly unjust." The smaller states, fearing domination by the larger ones, insisted on equal representation for all states.
For their part, the small state representatives argued that the states were, in fact, equal, and that proportional representation would be unfair to them.
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 Chronological History Timeline of the United States - SHG Resources
September 25, 1789 - The United States Congress adopts the Bill of Rights (containing the 1st 10 Amendments) and sends it to the states to be ratified.
Florida became a state on March 3, 1845, a move delayed by the reluctance of Congress to admit another slave state, and it joined the Confederacy on January 10, 1861, re-entering the Union at war's end.
December 19, 1998 - The U.S. House of Representatives approves 2 of 4 Proposed Ariticles of Impeachment.
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 Guide to Microforms
House and Senate Documents are comprised of other official publications, many of them reports originating in the executive branch of government, but also including petitions, memorials, veto messages, documentary compilations, reports from federally chartered organizations, etc.
Born in Scotland in 1734 and immigrated to Penna. in 1762.
Fifth census of the United States, 1830, Illinois.
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 Chapter Summaries of Kenneth Stampp's "America in 1857"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In August, Robinson was tried in the territorial court for usurping the office of state governor but acquitted because he could not be convicted of usurping an office that did not yet exist.
They stated explicitly that slave property was entitled to the same rights as any property and even incorporated most of the Kentucky and Missouri slave codes into the constitution.
This focus on the events of 1857 that led to the Civil War is of considerable value for research of the United States history prior to and in the early stages of the Civil War, in order to acquire knowledge of particular persons and particular events that precipitated the war.
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Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, May 14, 1948
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