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Remarks at the Signing of the Violence against Women Act

Barack Obama & Joe Biden

2013

Northwest Ordinance

1787

“The Right of the People to Rule”

Theodore Roosevelt

1912

McCulloch v. Maryland

1819

Gibbons v. Ogden

1824

Dred Scott v. Sandford

1857

The Slaughterhouse Cases

1873

US v. Belmont

1937

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A Gilded Age cartoon depicting monopolists intensely watching the activities of the United States congress. This cartoon depicts the elites as bloated giants, resembling large money bags, almost suggesting that they run congress through financial means.

Nationalism and Imperialism in the Gilded Age

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