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Second New Deal
History; American history
The second stage of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's economic recovery and reform program, launched January 4, 1935.
Separatists
History; American history
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 ...
Slave Codes
History; American history
Legal codes that defined the slaveholders' power and the slaves' status as property.
Sit in
History; American history
A form of nonviolent protest in which civil rights activists occupy seats in a segregated establishment.
Sherman Antitrust Act
History; American history
A law passed in 1890 to break up trusts and monopolies, it was rarely enforced except against labour unions and most of its power was stripped away by the Supreme Court, but it began federal attempts ...
Shays Rebellion
History; American history
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 ...
Roderigue Hortalez & Cie.
History; American history
Prior to its formal involvement in the War for Independence, the French government supplied the American rebels with critically needed war goods through a bogus private trading firm known as ...
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