The Tammany Society emerged as the center for Democratic-Republican Party politics in the city in the early 19th century. After 1854, the Society expanded its political control even further by earning the loyalty of the city's rapidly expanding immigrant community, which functioned as its base of political capital.
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In the December 1898 Treaty of Paris, Spain renounced all claim to Cuba, ceded Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States, and transferred sovereignty over the Philippines to the United States for $20 million
Im going to assume its because a "lame duck" session only happened when congress meets after a election.
I would believe c
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Resistance fighters from the Warsaw ghetto rose up against the Nazis in 1943, which led to the Nazis liquidating the ghetto.