The Treaty of Ghent was signed by British and American representatives at Ghent, Belgium, ending the War of 1812. By terms of the treaty, all conquered territory was to be returned, and commissions were planned to settle the boundary of the United States and Canada.
The Rosetta Stone was found by accident in 1799 when the soldiers in Napoleons army were digging the foundations to a fort close to the town Rashid in the Nile Delta.
The Rosetta Stone is an important artifact because it is the key to understanding the Egyptian heiroglyphs.
also known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act; further boosted the economy by providing generous loans to veterans to help them establish businesses, buy homes, and attend college
Taft-Hartley Act
outlawed the closed shop
Closed shop
practice of forcing business owners to hire only union members
Right-to-work laws
outlawed union shops
Union shops
shops in which new workers were required to join the union
Featherbedding
practice of limiting work output in order to create more jobs
Dixiecrat Party
a group of Southern Democrats who walked out of the Democratic Convention and were angry at Truman's support of civil rights (Strom Thurmond as presidential candid
