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the introduction to the constitution

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the preamble

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describe the emancipation proclamation

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issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as a war measure during the American Civil War, he was pretty much saying that every slave in the rebellious states is free. but the loyal states could still have slavery

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when was the constitution ratified?

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June 21st 1788

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describe the Plessy vs Ferguson Trial

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an act required blacks and whites to be separated in railroad cars. homer plessy bought a first class white only railroad pass. they asked him to leave and he didn’t he was arrested. the Supreme Court said the seperate car act was legal

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what was wrong with the articles of confederation?

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the nation was a loose confederation of states. each operating like individual countries. one legislator - the congress of confederation.

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where was the constitution made?

where and when was George washington elected prez

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@ constitutional convention.

1787

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how was the constitution better

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stronger federal government with three branches–executive, legislative and judicial–along with a system of checks and balances to ensure no single branch would have too much power.

executive, legislative and judicial. A system of checks and balances

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what is the bill of rights

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The Bill of Rights–10 amendments guaranteeing basic individual protections such as freedom of speech and religion

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what is the Connecticut compromise

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delegates from large states wanted representation by population. and small states didn’t

proposed a bicameral legislature with proportional representation of the states in the lower house (House of Representatives) and equal representation in the upper house (Senate).

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how did the Great Plains become infertile

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so much plowing of topsoil. drought. wind

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how did the dust bowl affect Americans?

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farming not possible. farmers can’t grow crops so they can’t pay bills. beginning of Great Depression.
farmers move out of Great Plains and are then homeless.

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who are exodusters?

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people that moved from dust bowl regions. most moved to the far west. CALIFORNIA

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who are the central powers

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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria

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who are the allied powers

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France, Britain, Russia

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what is the Monroe doctorine

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asked Europeans to not increase their influence in the Western Hemisphere

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what is the Roosevelt corollary

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it stated that the us would use military power if European countries entered Latin America

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how did the Great Depression do the stuffs

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the stock market crash of October 1929. Wall Street wiped out millions of investors. steep declines in in industrial output=unemployment. half countries banks failed

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what is a banking panic

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large numbers of investors lost confidence in the banks. and demanded money back, causing banks to liquidate loans in order to supplement their insufficient cash reserve. then the banks had to close doors

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how did FDR help the GD

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passed legislation that aimed to stabilize industrial and agricultural production, create jobs and stimulate recovery.

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what is the federal deposit insurance corporation?

securities and exchange commission?

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to protect depositors a accounts.

to regulate the stock market and prevent abuse of the kind that led to the 1929 crash

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what is yellow journalism

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it is when newspapers make up stories for the news

William hearse and joseph Pulitzer were enemies that fought for stories

peak of yellow journalism- us battleship, the Maine sunk on Cuba’s shore. although it turned out to be an accident, once news got to am Hearst and Pulitzer said Cuba wanted to go to war.

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what is manifest destiny

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us was destined to be across the coast. helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal, and war with Mexico

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what is the cause of the Mexican American war

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Texas became independent from Mexico. Mexico told am that annexation of Texas would lead to war.

but James k Polk still annexed it=war

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how did Mexico get ahead in the war when very behind

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they enlisted Santa Anna to come to Mexico and end the war.
he told America that he could end the war in favor of am.
Santa Anna immediately took control of mex army and lead them into battle.

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what is the treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo?
ended the American Mexican war
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what is the first permanent Spanish settlement?
ST AUGUSTINE 1585
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what was the first non-permanent English settlement?
ROANOKE 1585
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what is the first permanent English settlement
Jamestown, Virginia 1607
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what are the first 13 colonies
Virginia Maryland Pennsylvania Delaware New Jersey Connecticut Rhode Island Massachusetts New Hampshire North Carolina South Carolina Georgia New York
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what is Thomas Paine's common sense
A newspaper article stating that it was common sense to depart from England made in 1776
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name the intolerable/cohersive acts
sugar, stamp, Tea, murder parentheses Britt kill American parentheses, quarter act parentheses military people quartered in home parentheses
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describe what happened at Lexington and Concord
gen. North sent gauge to find Sam Adams and him and Paul Revere set the redcoats are coming, couple of people were killed 4000 militia surrounded British troops and after the battle was over everyone heard about it
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what are the shot heard around the world
when everyone knew about the militia people killing British troops
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what is a militia
A group of farmers getting together to rebel
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when was the Declaration of Independence made
July 4, 1776
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what where the premises of independence
all men are created equal, life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, King George was wrong
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what important happened at the battle of Saratoga
granny Gates didn't do anything and then Benedict Arnold did all the work but after Benedict got hurt Granny Gates got all the credit and that caused Benedict Arnold to the tray the country later
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how did the battle of Saratoga go down
they called for the house brothers but they want their | it was a turning point because France comes in to help against the British in 1777
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describe the battle Valley Forge
George Washington comes across Trenton and von Steuben trains the men 1777 to 1778
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how was the Revolutionary war ended
The Treaty of Paris in 1783 and it hostility with Britain
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what is the battle of Gettysburg
in 1863 it was the bloodiest three-day battle and link to it was the Gettysburg address
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what is the purpose of Gettysburg address
everyone is equal. Was trying to get everyone's spirits up and read dedicating the war to end slavery
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what was the battle of Antietam
The bloodiest single day battle and linked with the Emancipation Proclamation
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what is the 13th amendment
freedom of slaves
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what is the first article in the Constitution
The legislative branch
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what is the second article
impeachment Pres. elect Toro college – the executive branch
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what is the third article in the Constitution
The judicial branch – the Supreme Court trial by jury and what is treason
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what is the fourth article of the Constitution
States powers and limits
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what is the fifth article in the Constitution
how to amend the Constitution
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what is the six article in the constitution
governments can have that federal powers and oath of office
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what is the seventh article of the Constitution
how to ratify the constitution
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what date was the World War II
1941 to 1945
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what is the Manhattan Project
all the allies came together to build an atomic bomb
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where was the Manhattan projects atomic bomb used in Japan
Hiroshima first and Nagasaki second all in 1945
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what is the postdam ultimatum
by America to Japan surrender or they will drop the atomic bomb
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what is the Harry Truman doctrine
1947 – helps nations facing international and external communist pressures and it aided Greece and Turkey
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what is the Marshall plan
Truman word pressure would try to take over Greece and Turkey so USQ $13 billion to build up nations that were in bad shape after World War II to fight against the communist Russia
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describe the Cold War
from 1947 to 1989 after the Nurenberg trials in Germany Russia said that Communists were the best and thought they could take over countries Russia didn't trust anyone
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how was the Berlin wall built
Germany split four times splitting it with all the Allied countries the capital Berlin was also split between the countries but then Russia decided to take all of Berlin and nobody could leave so they built a wall to keep in everyone inside Berlin
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how did the Berlin wall finally come down
1989 – the wall finally went down when everyone came together and decided that either the military could shoot them or let them take down the wall
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when did the USSR clock off was billing
1948 to 1949
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what is operation fiddles or the Berlin airlift
when the Allies brought food relief to Berlin when the people were blockaded. people need to get into blockaded Berlin so they used all available runways and brought food and raw materials
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what is the Korean War
Russia took over North Korea and take it from China and Japan had South Korea in 1950 North Korea went into South Korea which is democratic not communist and north was trying to make south to become communist this app asked for you and to keep North Korea people out 3 million people were dead in three years and nobody gained anything
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what happened after North Korea went into South Korea
China and Russia became involved in many more people died
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Dwight D Eisenhower
1953
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what is McCarthyism
Joe McCarthy – he started the second red scare which was witchhunts he claimed the Communists were running the country and was against anybody else saying otherwise
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what is the domino effect
A communist nation will push neighboring countries into communism
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Who is Stalin
The dictator of Russia he killed many people more than Hitler
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what happened after Stalin died
Nikita Khrushchev became dictator and he was dumb and he's most known for pounding on the podium on the UN meeting because he was angry
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what is the Treaty of Versailles
was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919 couldn't have a big army and payed lots of money
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what is John Adams corrupt bargain
In the 1824 election, no outright majority was attained and the process required resolution in the House of Representatives, whose Speaker and candidate in his own right, Henry Clay, gave his support to John Quincy Adams, and was then selected to be his Secretary of State.
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describe the Lewis and Clark expedition
was the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States, departing in May, 1804 from St. Louis on the Mississippi River, making their way westward through the continental divide to the Pacific coast. The expedition was commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson shortly after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803
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what did they find on the Lewis and Clark expedition
The primary objective was to explore and map the newly acquired territory, find a practical route across the Western half of the continent, and establish an American presence in this territory before Britain and other European powers tried to claim it. also encountered native Americans
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describe trail of years
the Cherokee nation goes to court for the rights not to move, but are ignored the minority of them who favor relocation in stead of fighting make a treaty that makes Cherokee move. the Cherokee don't listen they are drove into camps and forced to walk to Oklahoma
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brown vs board of education-1954
was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896
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who was the brown in brown vs education
thirteen Topeka parents on behalf of their twenty children
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what is the difference between Johnson's and Lincoln's reconstruction plan?
Born in Tennessee, The only difference between Lincoln's reconstruction plan and Johnson's was that higher ranking Confederate leaders couldn't vote neither could wealthy landowners.
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Alaskan purchase
Russia wanted to sell its Alaskan territory, fearing that it might be seized if war broke out with Britain. Russia's primary activity in the territory had been fur trade and missionary work among the Native Alaskans. With the purchase of Alaska, the United States added 586,412 square miles (1,518,800 km2) of new territory. Reactions to the purchase in the United States were mixed, with opponents calling it "Seward's Folly", feeling that U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward, the primary American negotiator, got the worst of the bargain.
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sectionalism
the North, industrialized, urbanized and built prosperous factories, while the deep South concentrated on plantation agriculture based on slave labor,
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prohibition
was a nationwide ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933 supposed to save grains for the war
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what is the peculiar institution
black slavery in south
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Who is Fidel Castro
The military dictator of Cuba in 1959 and headed the temporary government then a full takeover in 1961 US broke diplomatic relations as cash or declining first as socialist country then a communist and then he allied with Khrushchev
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Kennedy
1960 Catholic president
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what is the Bay of Pigs
in April 1961 Cubans went to US and asked for Maracatu take out the communist and overthrow Castro The Bay of Pigs was a port in Cuba where the Cubans against Castro would land to attack Cuba with America's help but then once they got on the boats America refused to help
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how was the Berlin wall built
people started leaving the Russian sector so rested decided to build the wall overnight because they were embarrassed about people leaving
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what is the Cuban missile crisis
October 1963 kruhchev of in Russia and Fidel decided to move missiles at America Kenny told them to stop at they refused then more missiles came on the way to Cuba and USA orders not to let any of them into Cuba it was really close to a nuclear war
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describe the Vietnamese war
China had North Vietnamese in their communist South Vietnamese wasn't Communists in China wanted to take them over in 1962 Kennedy decided to give foreign affairs to help South Vietnam but there was no declaration of war they left in 1973 and one America last South Vietnam was taking over right away
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what is the Tonkin gulf resolution
USS Turner joy and Maddox potentially were being approached by go ships which could befall or could be a ship and then they sent a message saying they were now being shot at and so Lyndon B. Johnson gave himself power to escalate US involvement into Vietnam
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what else do Lyndon B. Johnson do
hollowing through with Kennedy's civil rights act which was no more segregation, Medicare and a head start program which helps kids get education and voting rights for African-Americans he also got Martin Luther King to be at the signing of the civil rights act
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what did Martin Luther King do
1965 walk from Selma to Montgomery
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describe United Nations
The organization is financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states. Its objectives include maintaining international peace and security, promoting human rights, fostering social and economic development, protecting the environment, and providing humanitarian aid in cases of famine, natural disaster, and armed conflict.
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kennedy's assassination
he was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald a bad sniper living in Russia in 1963
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Abraham Lincoln assassination
assassinated by John Wilkes Booth | several other conspirators and he thought that it would help keep slavery in the south
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what are the watergate affairs?
was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement
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what did the Watergate affairs lead to
The resignation and trying to impeach Richard Nixon
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what was the underground railroad
was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century slaves of African descent in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.
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who is Susan b Anthony
she was a womens rights suffragist
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who is John Kerry
us Secretary of State NOW
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rosa parks
Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled
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Dwight Eisenhower
got am out of Korean War and kept us out of war

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