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Adams Let Aliens Stay

10/29/2014

Although President John Adams signed the Alien Act of 1798 into law (which gave the president the power to deport any foreigner considered “dangerous”), he did not deport anyone.

David McCullough, John Adams (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001), 504-05.

Built Then Burned

10/23/2014

Many of the schools built for freedmen after the Civil War were burned by angry whites.

John Hope Franklin, Reconstruction: After the Civil War (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1961), 153.

Now Hiring...Again

10/15/2014

Workers’ dissatisfaction on Henry Ford’s assembly line forced him to employ 54,000 different people to fill 13,000 positions in a 12-month period during 1912 – 1913.

Steven J. Diner, A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998), 57.

Reagan Left the Party After Truman

10/8/2014

Harry Truman was the last Democrat that Ronald Reagan supported for president.

William E. Pemberton, Exit with Honor: The Life and Presidency of Ronald Reagan (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997), 49.

The Revolution's Unenthusiastic Ending

10/1/2014

The Confederation Congress’s approval of the Treaty of Paris at the end of the American Revolution was delayed by several weeks until enough delegates were present to reach a quorum.

Joseph J. Ellis, American Creation (New York: Vintage Books, 2007), 88.

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