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Coverture Coverture

History; American history

Is closely connected with patriarchy because this concept contends that the legal identity of women is subordinated first in their fathers and, then, in their husbands, as the sanctioned heads of ...

Court Packing

History; American history

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's controversial plan to appoint Supreme Court justices who were sympathetic to his views, by offering retirement benefits to the sitting justices.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

History; American history

Landmark legislation that prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, or national origin in employment and public facilities such as hotels, restaurants, and playgrounds. It ...

Colonization

History; American history

The effort to encourage masters to voluntarily emancipate their slaves and to resettle free blacks in Africa.

The process of transferring plants, animals, foods, diseases, wealth, and culture between Europe and the Americas, beginning at the time of Christopher Columbus and continuing throughout the era of ...

Committee on Public Information (CPI)

History; American history

U. S. Propaganda agency of World War I.

Committees of Correspondence

History; American history

As American leaders became increasingly anxious about a perceived British imperial conspiracy to deprive them of their liberties, they set up networks of communication among the colonies. Beginning ...