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• Directory:Alaska
  ...ful Aleut natives. Consequently, this led to the chartering of the Russian American Company in 1799. Under its first manager, Alexander Baranov, which was a pe ...Cordova between 1911 and 1938. In 1935 Federal subsidies were provided to farmers from the Midwest and Dust Bowl to settle the Matanuska Valley Colony.
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• Directory:Mississippi
  ...ed to grow in importance with the invention of the cotton gin in 1793. The farmers used slave labor to operate the large cotton plantations. By 1860, Mississi * William Grant Still of Woodville composed the Afro-American Symphony.
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• Directory:Connecticut
  During the American Revolution, Connecticut gave freely of her blood and wealth. Her soldiers w * Cattle branding in the United States began in Connecticut when farmers were required by law to mark all of their pigs.
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• User:CharlesDukwe
  ...man of [http://uk4africa.com/ UK4Africa], 11pillars4infrastructure and the Farmers Club. He is the patron or grand patron of countless charity organizations a ...rate strategist providing business strategic intelligence to more than 100 American companies in over 27 industries in a career spanning a little over 8 years.
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• Directory:Alabama
  ...780, Bernardo Galvez captured Mobile from the British. At the close of the American Revolution, Great Britain ceded (1783) to the United States all lands east ...ports of the Confederacy and harkened the end of the bloodiest conflict in American history.
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• Directory:Montana
  ...for France by François and Louis-Joseph Verendrye in the early 1740s. The American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led their expedition across Mo ...Mary's Mission, the first attempt at a permanent settlement. In 1847, the American Fur Company built Fort Benton on the Missouri River. This town is now Monta
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• Directory:Charles Dukwe
  ...man of [http://uk4africa.com/ UK4Africa], 11pillars4infrastructure and the Farmers Club. He is the patron or grand patron of countless charity organizations a ...rate strategist providing business strategic intelligence to more than 100 American companies in over 27 industries in a career spanning a little over 8 years.
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• Directory:James K. Polk
  | nationality=American (US) ...with Britain. He is even more famous for leading the successful [[Mexican–American War]]. He lowered the [[tariff]] and established a treasury system that la
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• Directory:Andrew Jackson
  | nationality=American ...He was a polarizing figure who dominated [[Politics of the United States|American politics]] in the 1820s and 1830s. His political ambition combined with th
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• Directory:William McKinley
  ...fth [[President of the United States]], and the last veteran of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] to be elected. ...this one focused on foreign policy. As president, he fought the [[Spanish-American War]]. McKinley for months resisted the public demand for war, which was ba
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• Directory:North Carolina
  After the war, huge plantations were divided and sold to tenant farmers. Tobacco manufacturing grew rapidly in Durham while the furniture industry * Hiram Rhoades Revels, born in Fayetteville in 1822, was the first African-American member of the United States Congress.
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• Directory:Woodrow Wilson
  ...ogressiveness, and liberalism, has been a highly controversial position in American [[Foreign policy in the United States|foreign policy]], serving as a model ...in political philosophy and history. He was active in the undergraduate [[American Whig-Cliosophic Society|discussion club]], and organized a separate Liberal
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• Directory:Vietnam/Vietnam Economy
  agricultural goods, and enabled farmers to sell their goods in the marketplace. It encouraged the are a different species from their American counterpart but are marketed in the United States
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• Directory:Missouri
  ...pi to Spain. Although few Spaniards settled Missouri, many U.S. miners and farmers entered from Mississippi. ...lly powerful, but the state remained principally a fur-trading center. The American Fur Company organized in St. Louis in 1822 and soon developed a monopoly on
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• Directory:Goodbye to a River Plot Summary and More
  ...uage, naturalist philosophy and beautiful prose, the book is considered an American classic and heralded as a masterpiece of conservation and history, often co ...e Comanches. He then drifts into environmentalism my talking about the old farmers practice of not letting the land go [[fallow]] until nothing but dust was l
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• Directory:Brazil
  ...argest country in South America; shares common boundaries with every South American country except Chile and Ecuador ..." | Landless Workers' Movement or MST; labor unions and federations; large farmers' associations; religious groups including evangelical Christian churches an
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• Directory:Grover Cleveland
  ...ounty, New York|Erie County]].<ref>Graff, 15; Nevins, 46</ref> With the [[American Civil War]] raging, Congress passed the [[Conscription Act of 1863]], requi ...conversely, was reviled throughout the South for his actions during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]; Thurman was generally well-liked, but was growing ol
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• Directory:William Howard Taft
  ...]] [[1857]] – [[March 8]] [[1930]]) was an [[Politics of the United States|American politician]], the twenty-seventh [[President of the United States]], the te ...h had been ceded to the United States by [[Spain]] following the [[Spanish-American War]] and the [[Treaty of Paris (1898)|1898 Treaty of Paris]]. Although Taf
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• Directory:South Korea
  ...ffff" | combines elements of continental European civil law systems, Anglo-American law, and Chinese classical thought; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdi ...abor Unions; National Democratic Alliance of Korea; National Federation of Farmers' Associations; National Federation of Student Associations
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• Directory:Franklin D. Roosevelt
  ...anor Roosevelt]], remain touchstones for [[modern American liberalism]]. [[American conservatism|Conservatives]] vehemently fought back, but Roosevelt usually ...States as it became the [[Arsenal of Democracy]], putting sixteen million American men into uniform.
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