Female empowerment & jobs for women during WW2
The launch of Sputnik in 1957 was important because most in the U.S. had not thought the Soviets were capable of producing satellite technology. This was also important because it was start of the Space Race between Russia and the United States.
I don't know what region you are specifically talking about but typically, colonists pushed into native American lands stealing them and killing them when they refused to move.
Colonist also brought diseases from Europe that killed a large number of the native population and engaged in constant warfare with them. Native Americans would raid colonies and vice versa.
An upper house, sometimes called a Senate, is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature (or one of three chambers of a tricameral legislature), the other chamber being the lower house. The house formally designated as the upper house is usually smaller, and often has more restricted power, than the lower house.