Aside from a general curiosity about space, the United States wanted to go to space because the Russians were trying to get there too, and we were in a "cold" war with them.
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1. Carl Vinson served for over 50 years in Congress.
He was a powerful United States representative from Georgia. As a Democrat, he served for more than 50 years in the House of Representatives. He served twenty five consecutive terms, which is longer than anybody else in history.
2. He is considered the 'Father of the Two Ocean Navy'.
The Two-Ocean Navy Act (also known as the Vinson-Walsh Act) was a law established on July 19, 1940. It was named after Carl Vinson and David I Walsh. Both men chaired the Naval Affairs Committee in the House and Senate respectively. The law was the largest naval procurement bill in U.S. history, it increased the size of U.S. Navy by 70%.
The Hundred Days Offensive Jul–Nov 1918 was the costliest
The Ludendorff offensive other wise known as the spring offensive was a German offensive on the Western Front intended to win the war before the American troops that had begun arriving in France could fully deploy.
I'm unsure of how far they advanced
Kaiserschlacht was the last German offensive and was a series of German attacks along the Western Front.
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<em>Slavery was so profitable, it sprouted more millionaires per capita in the Mississippi River valley than anywhere in the nation. With cash crops of tobacco, cotton and sugar cane, America's southern states became the economic engine of the burgeoning nation. Their fuel of choice? Human slavery. Under the law, an enslaved person was treated as property and could be bought, sold, or given away. Slavery lasted in about half of U.S. states until 1865. As an economic system, slavery was largely replaced by sharecropping and convict leasing.</em>
<em>Slavery had been practiced in British America from early colonial days, and was legal in all thirteen colonies at the time those colonies formed the United States. Under the law, an enslaved person was treated as property and could be bought, sold, or given away. Slavery lasted in about half of U.S. states until 1865.The first 19 or so Africans to reach the British colonies arrived in Point Comfort, Virginia, near Jamestown, in 1619, brought by British privateers who had seized them from a captured Portuguese slave ship. Slaves were usually baptized in Africa before embarking.</em>
Just one month after writing this letter, Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which announced that at the beginning of 1863, he would use his war powers to free all slaves in states still in rebellion as they came under Union control.
The focus was to fight for political and legal equality between the sexes. The axis that marked this first period of feminist activity was the claim for equal rights of citizenship (right to education, property and possessions of property, divorce, etc.), having as main point the suffragist fight for the right to the feminine vote, that happened in several countries in the world.
