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Hanging by a Chad—or Not: The 2000 Presidential Election
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Why Sports History Is American History
In the classroom, examples from sports can explain key events in American history and help explore how people in American society have grappled with racial, ethnic, and regional differences in...
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Coming to America: Ellis Island and New York City
New York City is a kind of archipelago, a Philippines on the Hudson River. Only one borough—the Bronx—is actually attached to the American mainland. There are some forty islands in...
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The Impact of Title IX
One of the great achievements of the women’s movement was the enactment of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The law states...
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World Wide Web went public
The Internet became available to the public on January 15, 1991.
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Contract with America
Led by Newt Gingrich, the Republican Party released its “Contract with America,” a pledge taken by three hundred Republican candidates for the House promising to reduce spending on welfare, balance the budget, and respect the “values . . . of the American family.”
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Defense of Marriage Act
Congress adopted the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as “a legal union between one man and one woman” and affirmed the right of states to refuse recognition of same-sex marriages performed elsewhere.
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First female Speaker of the House
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi of California was unanimously elected by Democrats as the first female Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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Health care reform defeated
The Health Care and Security Act of 1993, championed by President Clinton and Hillary Clinton, was abandoned when the 1994 mid-term elections saw Republicans returned to power in the House and the Senate.
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Kyoto Protocol
The Kyoto Protocol treaty was adopted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The protocol was an agreement between member countries for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in coming years. The United States was the only industrialized country in the world that refused to ratify the protocol, though it remained a member of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.