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Siteseen: American Historama: Domino Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
Many of the Cold War presidents used the Domino Theory as the main justification for their involvement and intervention in the affairs of Eastern Europe, the Middle East, China, Korea, Cuba, and Vietnam as it related to the spread of...
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Siteseen: American Historama: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (Sncc)

For Students 9th - 10th
Features interesting information, history, and facts relating to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Immigration Act of 1882

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about this comprehensive immigration law that was passed to limit immigration based on excluding certain kinds of people who were deemed "undesirable".
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Siteseen: American Historama: Angel Island Immigration Center

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn interesting facts about the Angel Island Immigration Center, a detention center for immigrants from China, Japan and Asia who entered the United States from the east.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Naacp Facts & History Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents details of important people and interesting historical events relating to the NAACP in a timeline format.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Enforcement Acts

For Students 9th - 10th
The purpose of the Enforcement Acts was to implement and extend the fundamental guarantees of the Constitution to all citizens and protect ex-slaves from violence carried out by the Ku Klux Klan.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Sharecropping

For Students 9th - 10th
Features numerous facts about the history and events of sharecropping, a system of working land owned by others for a share of the yield.
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Siteseen: American Historama: End of the Vietnam War

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a summary and detailed facts about the reasons for the end of the Vietnam war.
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Siteseen: Government and Constitution: Shays Rebellion

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn interesting facts about Shays Rebellion whose primary cause was the economic crisis in the country and the taxes introduced to pay the war debts incurred during the War of Independence.
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Siteseen: Government and Constitution: Republican Party History

For Students 9th - 10th
Article provides a history of the Republican party and details on the eighteen Presidents who have belonged to the Republican Party through George W. Bush.
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Siteseen: Government and Constitution: The Federalists

For Students 9th - 10th
Fun facts and an overview of the Federalists, the first American political party and formed by Alexander Hamilton, the Secretary of the Treasury, John Adams, and Gouverneur Morris.
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Siteseen: American Historama: 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn interesting facts about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the American Mexican War (1846-1848).
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Siteseen: Government and Constitution: Democratic Party History

For Students 9th - 10th
This article contains a summary of the history of the rise of the Democratic Party, its origins, leaders, presidents, and their beliefs.
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Siteseen: Government and Constitution: Free Soil Party

For Students 9th - 10th
This article contains an overview of the history of the Free Soil Party, its leaders, their beliefs, and eventually joined with the National Union Party to form the newly formed Republican Party in 1854.
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Siteseen: American Historama: President Mc Kinley Assassination

For Students 9th - 10th
This article provides facts about the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901 and of his murderer, Leon Czolgosz.
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Siteseen: American Historama: San Francisco Earthquake

For Students 9th - 10th
This article provides a summary and detailed facts about the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, one of the most devasting natural disasters in American history.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Niagara Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Niagara Movement, a black civil rights organization formed in 1905 formed by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Vietnamization

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Vietnamization, the policy adopted by the Nixon administration to withdraw the United States combat troops in the Vietnam War by turning the fighting over to the Vietnamese.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Alien Contract Labor Law

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview and facts about the 1885 Alien Contract Labor Law that prohibited any company or individual from bringing unskilled foreigners (aliens) into the United States under contract to work for them.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Reconstruction Era

For Students 9th - 10th
Covers the Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War from 1865-1877.
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Siteseen: Government and Constitution: Federalist Papers

For Students 9th - 10th
The Federalist Papers were a series of 85 essays that promoted the ratification of the United States Constitution and the nature of a Republican government.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Mexican American War

For Students 9th - 10th
Summarizes the causes of the Mexican American war and provides facts about the history, famous people, and events surrounding it.
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Siteseen: Government and Constitution: 18th Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
Description of the Eighteenth Amendment that was about Prohibition and the abolishment of liquor.
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Siteseen: Government and Constitution: 19th Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
Description of the 19th Amendment that guaranteed women the right to vote.