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Decision Points – Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

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Montezuma and Cortés

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Pilgrims to the New World

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King Philip’s War

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George Washington at Newburgh

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Loyalist vs. Patriot

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Signing the Declaration of Independence

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The Annapolis Convention

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Robert Carter and Manumission

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The Compromise of 1790

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A portrait of Edmond Charles Genet.

George Washington and the Proclamation of Neutrality

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Marbury v. Madison

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A political cartoon of three men on a cliff and a man under the cliff, representing New England states, wondering whether to jump (commit treason), while the British monarch, shown separated from the men by water, encourages them to jump off the cliff.

The Hartford Convention

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The Missouri Compromise

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John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule

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Cartoon of three men fighting a monstrous snake-like creature with multiple human heads. The man on the left holds a cane that says “veto” on it. The man on the right has dropped his axe.

Andrew Jackson’s Veto of the National Bank

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To Go to War with Mexico?

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Painting of a wagon train surrounded by mountains on the right, trees on the left, and animals all around.

The Oregon Question: 54-40 or Fight?

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Map of the states and territories of the United States, showing the panhandle of present-day Oklahoma as disputed (labeled “neutral strip”); Mexico as a small strip of what is currently southern Arizona and southwest New Mexico; territories of Oregon, Utah, New Mexico, Unorganized, and Minnesota; slave states of Texas and those east to the Atlantic and north to Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware; and non-slave states as Iowa and Wisconsin, and all remaining states to the east (and north of the indicated slave states).

The Compromise of 1850

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Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation

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An image of Union general Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate commander Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House as they agree to terms of Lee’s surrender

Grant and Lee at Appomattox

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The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

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Image shows a crowd of American men beating Chinese men in the street and destroying their property.

The Chinese Exclusion Act

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The Election of 1912

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The Treaty of Versailles

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Dropping the Atomic Bomb

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Truman Intervenes in Korea

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Truman Fires General Douglas MacArthur

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Eisenhower and the Suez Canal Crisis

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Protests at the University of California, Berkeley

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Free Speech and the Student Anti-War Movement

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Lyndon B. Johnson’s Decision Not to Run in 1968

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Barbara Jordan and Watergate

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“Tear Down This Wall”: Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War

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U.S. Foreign Policy in Somalia and Rwanda

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U.S. Military Intervention in Afghanistan

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