... American colonies that were proclaiming their separation from Great Britain, founding the United States of America. In order to understand why these founding fathers would go to such lengths to separate themselves from Britain, after all they were committing treason by creating this Declaration, we have to go back in time to the French and Indian War, most commonly known in ... of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which th...

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... (1892): Plessy, 1/8 black man, sued state of Louisiana. He was jailed for sitting in the "White's" car of the East Louisiana Railroad. State of Louisiana found him guilty under the "separate, but equal" law & so did the Supreme Court. Brown vs Board of Education (1954): Linda Brown, a black girl attending fifth grade at the public schools in Topeka, Kansas, was denied ... Congress on the morning of July 4, 1776. Marbury vs Madison (1803) William Marbury, sued Secretary of State James Madison to force him to deliver his commission as a justice of the peace. The critical importance of Mar...

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... and his native American wife Sacajawea, Lewis and Clark reached the Pacific 18 months later, and successfully returned to Jefferson with the news. 1804 The Twelfth Amendment This amendment established separate votes in the Electoral College for president and vice president in order to prevent a scenario similar to the election of 1800, a Jefferson-Burr tie, which forced a series of tiebreaking votes ... nation of Tripoli had long relied on piracy as a major source of income, as well as taking payments in exchange for protection and selling captured seamen into slavery. In 1805, a peace ...

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