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On May 6, the German government signed the so-called Sussex Pledge, promising to stop the indiscriminate sinking of non-military ships. ... Furthermore, no ship would be sunk before safe passage had been provided for the ship's crew and its passengers.
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The Sussex Pledge was a promise made by Germany to the United States in 1916, during World War I before the latter entered the war.
When Texas wanted to join the Union right after becoming independent in 1836, one of the reasons why the annexation was blocked was because Texas would have been a slave state. ... The people in Texas wanted slavery to continue, which would assist with the growing of cotton.
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Standard Oil became a horizontal integration monopoly because it owned ninety percent of US oil refineries. It became a monopoly because it bought almost all of the competitors so that it managed to control almost all oil production, processing, marketing, and transportation in the United States.
