The Spanish-American War was a major conflict between the United States and the Spanish Empire. The war took place in 1898 and was fought in various Spanish colonial holdings in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The important results of the…
The National Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the US which outlawed literacy testing because the practice was being unfairly used to deny African-Americans their right to vote. Not only did this…
A carpetbagger was historically a pejorative term for Northerners who moved to the South during the Reconstruction period in the late 19th century, following the US Civil War. In common usage, the term is still usually used as an insult,…
The Apollo Program was a program run by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from 1961-1975. The primary goal of the program was to achieve human spaceflight, and to get humans to the moon and back again. On 20…
The Sagebrush Rebellion was an American political movement in the 1970s and early 1980s that sought to strip the federal, or national, government of land control powers in the western part of the country. Historically the federal government has owned…