Thurgood Marshall was an American lawyer, serving as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice.
On March 13, 1865, Confederate
President Jefferson Davis signed an act into a law to authorize slaves in the
confederate army. The act authorized Davis to request for a quota of additional
troops, irrespective of their color (i.e. he could request slave owners to give
their slaves over to the Confederate government so that they could be made soldiers),
but with the condition that the slaves recruited should not exceed 25% of the
able bodied male slave population between 18 and 45.
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Congressional grants provided the significant of the amount
required for the interstate highway system. This system has profoundly impacted
the American economy and contributed significantly to improved economic productivity.
The system encouraged development by making land less expensive and available
to the nation's transportation system.
The act of identifying relationships between two or more events in history is The Dawes Act
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