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Walter O'Malley
History; American history
Penny pinching owner of baseball's Dodgers who oversaw their 1958 move from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. Unhappy with the deterioration of Brooklyn's neighbourhoods and lured by the economic promise of ...
Voting Rights Act of 1965
History; American history
This law prohibited literacy tests and sent federal examiners to the South to register voters.
Indian removal policy
History; American history
A policy of resettling eastern Indian tribes on lands west of the Mississippi River.
Removal
History; American history
A policy of resettling eastern Indian tribes on lands west of the Mississippi River.
Freedom of Information Act
History; American history
This law allows the public and press to request declassification of government documents.
Flapper
History; American history
Term for a liberated woman who bucked conventional ideas of propriety in dress and manners during the 1920s.
Fourteen Points
History; American history
President Woodrow Wilson's formula for peace after World War I.