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Places (1)
Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Puritan commonwealth that governed itself, 1630-1691
Eras (1)
Jacksonian Democracy
The 20 years of democratic expansion — and brutal exclusion — that remade American politics, 1828–1848
Events (5)
Election of 1828
Andrew Jackson's populist landslide reshapes American democracy
Election of 2008
Barack Obama defeats John McCain to become the first Black president
Election of 2016
Donald Trump's upset of Hillary Clinton remakes American politics
Election of 2020
Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump in a pandemic election
Independence Day
The Fourth of July, the birthday of the United States
Documents (9)
Ninth Amendment
The rights retained by the people
Seventeenth Amendment
The Amendment That Created Direct Election of U.S. Senators, 1913
Tenth Amendment
The powers reserved to the states and the people
The Congressional Apportionment Amendment
The original "First Amendment" that was never ratified
The D.C. Voting Rights Amendment
The failed amendment to give Washington full representation in Congress
The Four Freedoms
FDR's vision for a world worth defending, 1941
Twelfth Amendment
The overhaul of how the Electoral College elects a president
Twenty-sixth Amendment
Lowering the voting age to eighteen
Twenty-third Amendment
Presidential electors for the District of Columbia
Concepts (1)
The Iroquois Confederacy
The Haudenosaunee league that united nations under one Great Law of Peace
Symbols (3)
National Symbols of the United States
The flag, the eagle, and the emblems that stand in for the nation
The Great Seal of the United States
The eagle, the motto, and the unfinished pyramid of the republic
The Pledge of Allegiance
The oath to the flag, written in 1892 and revised ever since
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