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In American culture, women have a number of benefits, including being excluded from the draft. Women who were against the ERA preferred to keep those rights.
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Reagan was cleared of all charges, yet it was his administration that supported the Nicaraguan Contras against the wishes of Congress.
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The guidelines for how the Northwest Territory's divisions could become states were laid down in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
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After leaving the White House, Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate from New York.
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Eleanor Roosevelt is known for having resigned from an organization that would not allow the African-American contralto Marian Anderson to sing in its hall and then assisting in organizing Anderson's performance at the Lincoln Memorial. Roosevelt also wrote a daily column called "My Day," was instrumental in passing the UN Declaration of Human Rights, and frequently traveled abroad to visit U.S. servicemen in hospitals.
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The Grange and Alliance movements achieved the exact opposite; as national organizations, they assisted farmers in working together to accomplish shared objectives.
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The rights of African Americans were restricted by the Black Codes, which differed from state to state. The Southern legislators insisted on maintaining a system of racial segregation and oppression despite being unable to bring back slavery.
