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Two days after the U.S. Senate voted 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives endorses the declaration by a vote of 373 to 50, and America formally enters World War I.
When World War I erupted in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson pledged neutrality for the United States, a position that the vast majority of Americans favored. Britain, however, was one of America’s closest trading partners, and tension soon arose between the United States and Germany over the latter’s attempted quarantine of the British Isles. Several U.S. ships traveling to Britain were damaged or sunk by German mines, and in February 1915 Germany announced unrestricted warfare against all ships, neutral or otherwise, that entered the war zone around Britain. One month later, Germany announced that a German cruiser had sunk the William P. Frye, a private American vessel. President Wilson was outraged, but the German government apologized and called the attack an unfortunate mistake.
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On May 7, the British-owned Lusitania ocean liner was torpedoed without warning just off the coast of Ireland. Of the 1,959 passengers, 1,198 were killed, including 128 Americans. The German government maintained that the Lusitania was carrying munitions, but the U.S. demanded reparations and an end to German attacks on unarmed passenger and merchant ships. In August, Germany pledged to see to the safety of passengers before sinking unarmed vessels, but in November sunk an Italian liner without warning, killing 272 people, including 27 Americans. With these attacks, public opinion in the United States began to turn irrevocably against Germany.
1541 - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado first explored the region for Spain
1714 - Saint Denis from New Orleans ascended the Red River along the southern boundary of Oklahoma.
1717 - The Spanish under Padilla marched from the Spanish settlements on the Rio Grande across the Great Plains to punish the Comanche for making warfare on them. They fought a hard battle on the western border of Oklahoma and captured seven hundred prisoners.
1719 - French explorer Jean-Baptiste de la Harpe explores Oklahoma, claiming it for France.
Bernard de la Harpe, under direction of Governor Bienville at New Orleans, set out from Natchitoches on the Red River to explore the valley- of that stream. He passed over Southern and Southeastern Oklahoma.
1723 - New Orleans was proclaimed as the seat of government for the territory of Louisiana. Etienne Venyard du Bourgmount crossed Oklahoma, visiting the Pawnee, Kaw, Osage, Missouri, and then the Comanche on the Arkansas River in what is now Central Kansas. He loaded the Indians with presents in an effort to win their attachment to the French, thus beginning the rivalry with the Spanish for the Great Plains region.
1895 -May 23rd - the Kickapoo Land Run was held in central Oklahoma
1995 - Terrorist bomb blows up the Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, and injuring hundreds more
2011 - Tornadoes struck in several areas of the state, killing five
Fifty foot prints from 2 million different people
The correct answer is "B"
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War, but there were issues that needed to be resolved for both sides, such as the border limits of the La Mesilla Valley, protection for Mexico from attacks by Indian tribes and the right of transit through the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
La Venta de La Mesilla (known as Gadsden Purchase in the United States) is a region of 76 845 km² of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased from Mexico by the United States in a treaty signed by US President Franklin Pierce who signed it on June 24, 1853 and the Mexican ruler Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna who signed it on December 30, 1853 and ratified by the United States Senate on April 25, 1854. The purchase included land south of the Gila River and west of the Rio Grande and was made for the purpose of building a transcontinental railroad along the southern route of the United States. It also solved the pending border problems after the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo that ended the Mexican-American War.
