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American history

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.

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