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The main base of the U. S. Pacific fleet, which Japan attacked on December 7, 1941, forcing the United States to enter World War II.
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Patriarchal social and political systems are denoted by power and authority residing in males, such as in the father of the family. Such authority then passes from father to son through the generations, and males, in general, control decision making. See coverture.
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An African American sea captain, Cuffe led the first experiment in colonization when he transported 38 free blacks to Sierra Leone in 1815.
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Oil supply disruptions and soaring oil prices that the United States experienced in 1973 and 1979. In 1973, Middle Eastern nations imposed an embargo on oil shipments to punish the West for supporting Israel in that year's Arab Israeli war. A second oil shock occurred when the Iranian Revolution disrupted oil shipments to the western nations.
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Religious dissenters from England who wanted to purify, rather than separate from, what they viewed as the corrupted, state supported Anglican church, or Church of England. By and large, the Puritans were nonseparatists,and some of them banded together to form a utopian community of believers in America. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was to be a model society that would show how godly societies and churches were to be properly organized. See separatists.
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's program designed to bring about economic recovery and reform during the Great Depression.
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Passed in 1920, the Constitutional guarantee of women's right to vote.
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Literary style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, where the individual was seen as a helpless victim in a world in which biological, social, and psychological forces determined his or her fate.
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These revolutionary leaders favored a stronger national government than the one provided for in the Articles of Confederation. They believed that only a powerful national government, rather than self serving states, could deal effectively with the many vexing problems besetting the new nation. George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison were prominent nationalists.
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