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Religious diversity was at the core of William Penn's vision for a colony in America. As such, the colony of Pennsylvania represented a "holy experiment" for Penn. He encouraged people of all faiths to live together in harmony and to maintain harmonious relations with Native Americans in the region. The residents of early Pennsylvania never fully embraced Penn's vision, but the colony was open to religious dissenters and became a model for the diversity that later characterized America.
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As Speaker of the House of Representatives, Senator, and unsuccessful candidate for the presidency, he was an advocate of the "American System," which called for a protective tariff, a national bank, and federally funded internal improvements. See American system (of Henry Clay).
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Herbert Hoover's program as director of the Food Administration to conserve food during World War I.
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The North Carolina born author of The Impending Crisis of the South, a book that argued that slavery was incompatible with economic progress.
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Six German principalities provided 30,000 soldiers to Great Britain to fight against the American rebels during the War for Independence. More than half of these troops for hire came from HesseCassel. Hessian thus would serve as the generic term for all German mercenaries fighting in the war, whether or not they came from Hesse Cassel.
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The national security advisor to President Nixon, the Harvard educated German Jewish immigrant was a staunch anti Communist. He was Nixon's closest associate on matters of foreign policy.
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J. Industrialist who epitomized the close relationship between government and industry in the West. His shipyards, financed by government loans and bolstered by cost plus government contracts, employed close to 300,000 Californians.
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A pencil maker, poet, and author of the influential essay "Civil Disobedience," Thoreau sought to realize transcendentalist ideals in his personal life.
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Following two reported attacks on the U. S. S. Maddox in 1964, American president Lyndon B. Johnson asked for and received this authorization from Congress to "take all necessary measures" to repel attacks, prevent aggression, and protect American security. It allowed Johnson to act without Congressional authorization on military matters in Vietnam.
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Born to a wealthy South Carolina slaveholding family, these sisters became leaders in the abolitionist and women's rights movements.
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