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Siteseen: American Historama: War Industries Board

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive overview and detailed facts about the War Industries Board, a government agency established to regulate the economy and industries in WW1.
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Siteseen: American Historama: 1801 Judiciary Act: Midnight Judges

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive overview and detailed facts about the 1801 Judiciary Act that allowed friends and supporters of president John Adams to be appointed to new offices, reorganized the federal judiciary, and established the first circuit...
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Siteseen: American Historama: Peace Corps

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed facts on the Peace Corps, established by John F. Kennedy in 1961 to promote world peace and friendship.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Equal Pay Act

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed facts on the 1963 Equal Pay Act that established equal pay for equal work among men and women.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Agent Orange

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed information on the 1962 Operation Ranch Hand that began involving chemical warfare using Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Civil Rights Act of 1957

For Students 9th - 10th
Informative article on the Civil Rights Act of 1957 that was intended to protect the right of African Americans to vote.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Ho Chi Minh

For Students 9th - 10th
Informative details on Ho Chi Minh, the leader of the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Seato

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive overview details SEATO, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, that was formed in 1954. It was intended to be the Southeast Asian version of NATO.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Warsaw Pact

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive overview details the 1955 Warsaw Pact, signed by the Soviets and its 7 communist 'satellite nations'.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Sputnik

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed information on Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth, launched by the USSR on October 4, 1957.
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Siteseen: American Historama: The Atlanta Compromise

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive overview with detailed facts about Booker T. Washington and the 1895 Atlanta Compromise speech.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Brown vs Board of Education

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive overview and detailed facts about Brown vs Board of Education, a 1954 Supreme Court case won by NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall against school segregation.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Eisenhower Doctrine

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive overview details the Eisenhower Doctrine, a 1957 speech made by President Dwight Eisenhower in response to the Suez Crisis.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Khmer Rouge

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive article discusses the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979) regime of Pol Pot in Cambodia and the SS Mayaguez incident.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Civil Rights Act of 1875

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Civil Rights Act of 1875 that extended the fundamental guarantees of the Constitution to protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights.
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Siteseen: American Historama: The Alamo

For Students 9th - 10th
Article provides an overview and a timeline of interesting facts about the Battle of the Alamo.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Plessy vs. Ferguson Case

For Students 9th - 10th
Article provides an overview and detailed facts about the impact of the 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson case on racial segregation.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Black Codes

For Students 9th - 10th
Southern states enacted laws known as Black Codes to restrict the freedom of ex-slaves in the South during the Reconstruction Era.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Jim Crow Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Jim Crow Laws, Southern laws that legalized segregation.
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Siteseen: American Historama: The Panic of 1873

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Panic of 1873, a serious six-year long economic crisis that led to riots, strikes and civil unrest.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Carpetbaggers

For Students 9th - 10th
This article provides facts and information about the Carpetbaggers, opportunist Northerners who went to the South during the Reconstruction Era following the Civil War.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Civil Rights Act of 1866

For Students 9th - 10th
The purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was to protect ex-slaves (Freedmen) from legislation in the Southern States such as the Black Codes and the Vagrancy Laws and help African Americans obtain equal status under the law.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Amistad Slave Ship

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the 1839 Amistad rebellion involving 53 African slaves who had been abducted from Sierra Leone by Spanish slavers being shipped to Cuba.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Mc Cormick Reaper

For Students 9th - 10th
Read interesting facts about Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the mechanical horse-drawn reaper 1n 1831.