• Events from the year 1931 in the United States. President: Herbert Hoover (R-California) Vice President: Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) Chief Justice: Charles...
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    The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic...
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    county equivalents of the United States. The 50 states of the United States are divided into 3,007 political subdivisions of states called counties. Two...
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    The term "United States," when used in the geographical sense, refers to the contiguous United States (sometimes referred to as the Lower 48, including...
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    The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America...
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    In the United States, the number of homeless people on a given night in January 2023 was more than 650,000 according to the Department of Housing and...
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    The Northeastern United States, also referred to as the Northeast, the East Coast, or the American Northeast, is a geographic region of the United States...
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    passed in most Northern states and a movement developed to abolish slavery. The role of slavery under the United States Constitution (1789) was the most...
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    The 1931 United States Senate special election in Vermont took place on March 31, 1931. Republican Warren Austin was elected to the United States Senate...
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    to the United States has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of its history. In absolute numbers, the United States...
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    The United States has separate federal, state, and local governments with taxes imposed at each of these levels. Taxes are levied on income, payroll,...
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    Abortion is a divisive issue in the United States. The issue of abortion is prevalent in American politics and culture wars, though a majority of Americans...
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  • This is a list of events in the year 2018 in the United States. President: Donald Trump (R-New York) Vice President: Mike Pence (R-Indiana) Chief Justice:...
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    The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States. It is bicameral, composed of a lower body, the House of Representatives...
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    The member states of the United Nations comprise 193 sovereign states. The United Nations (UN) is the world's largest intergovernmental organization....
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  • The following is a list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of New York. For chronological tables of members of both...
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  • and former Spanish, French, Dutch and British rule. Architecture in the United States has been shaped by many internal and external factors and regional...
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  • rebellions involving the United States of America. Currently, there are 108 wars on this list, 4 of which are ongoing. 12 major wars include the American Revolutionary...
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  • In the United States, censorship involves the suppression of speech or public communication and raises issues of freedom of speech, which is protected...
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    industry in the United States since the 1859 Pennsylvania oil rush around Titusville, Pennsylvania. Commonly characterized as "Big Oil", the industry...
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  • Communications in the United States include extensive industries and distribution networks in print and telecommunication. The primary telecom regulator...
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    In the United States, poverty has both social and political implications. In 2020, there were 37.2 million people in poverty. Some of the many causes...
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    The United States had an official estimated resident population of 334,914,895 on July 1, 2023, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. This figure includes...
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  • The history of the socialist movement in the United States spans a variety of tendencies, including anarchists, communists, democratic socialists, social...
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    The second gentleman or second lady of the United States (SGOTUS or SLOTUS) is the informal title held by the spouse of the vice president of the United...
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    The 1930 United States House of Representatives elections were elections for the United States House of Representatives to elect members to serve in the...
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    The following sortable table comprises the 477 mountain peaks of the United States with at least 3,000 m (9,843 ft) of topographic elevation and at least...
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    In the United States, abolitionism, the movement that sought to end slavery in the country, was active from the colonial era until the American Civil War...
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  • This section of the timeline of United States history concerns events from 1930 to 1949. 1930 – The Great Depression in the United States continues to worsen...
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  • In the broader context of racism in the United States, mass racial violence in the United States consists of ethnic conflicts and race riots, along with...
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