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    The Annexation Bill of 1866 was a bill introduced on July 2, 1866, but never passed in the United States House of Representatives. It called for the annexation...
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    prospect of American annexation. Reports of the Annexation Bill of 1866 — a bill that, contrary to myth, never came to a vote — might have been one of the...
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    War Plan Red (category History of the foreign relations of the United States)
    (1866-71) Fort Whoop-Up (1869-74) Annexation Bill of 1866 Roberts, Ken. Command Decisions. Center of Military History, Department of the Army. Archived from the...
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    By USAF". Aviation Week Network. Retrieved February 17, 2023. Chappell, Bill; Sullivan, Becky (February 18, 2023). "Did an F-22 shoot down an Illinois...
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    related to this article: Civil Rights Act of 1866 The Civil Rights Act of 1866 (14 Stat. 27–30, enacted April 9, 1866, reenacted 1870) was the first United...
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    ashamed of". 1848 in Mexico Annexation Bill of 1866 Californios in literature Gadsden Purchase Treaty of Cahuenga Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (History of New...
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    Nathaniel P. Banks (category Speakers of the United States House of Representatives)
    Banks was one of the strongest early advocates of Manifest destiny. He introduced the Annexation Bill of 1866 promoting offers to annex all of British North...
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     208–209  Representative Nathaniel P. Banks of Massachusetts' Annexation Bill of 1866 offered voluntary annexation to British North America, including territorial...
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    The 1866–67 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between June 4, 1866, and September 6, 1867....
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    related to 1866. 1866 (MDCCCLXVI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian...
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  • Treaty of 1866 that guaranteed their rights as citizens. The Cherokee Nation held general elections for Principal Chief between challenger Bill John Baker...
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    The 1866 United States elections occurred in the middle of National Union/Democratic President Andrew Johnson's term, during the Third Party System and...
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    The Memphis massacre of 1866 was a rebellion with a series of violent events that occurred from May 1 to 3, 1866 in Memphis, Tennessee. The racial violence...
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    exception of the Triveneto and Lazio. The annexation to the Kingdom of Sardinia of the various provinces had been sanctioned by a series of plebiscites...
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    Massacre of 1866 occurred on July 30, when a peaceful demonstration of mostly Black Freedmen was set upon by a mob of white rioters, many of whom had...
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    in June 1897, Secretary of State John Sherman agreed to a treaty of annexation with these representatives of the Republic of Hawaiʻi. The U.S. Senate...
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    The 1866 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election occurred on October 9, 1866. Incumbent governor Andrew Gregg Curtin, a Republican, was not running for re-election...
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    retrospect it is easy to see that the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine was a tragic mistake." Once the annexation took place the only policy that made sense...
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    believed the treaty to be an island annexation attempt and referred to the Hawaiians as an "inferior" race, a bill implementing the treaty passed Congress...
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    Records of annexation to Dawson County are also inconclusive. Santa Fe County, Texas formed in 1848 from lands claimed by the Republic of Texas and...
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    Johnson vetoed the Freedman's Bureau bill on February 18, 1866, to the delight of white Southerners and the puzzled anger of Republican legislators. He considered...
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    to the annexation, the Germans gained control of the fortifications of Metz and Strasbourg (Strassburg) on the left bank of the Rhine and most of the iron...
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    Wade–Davis Bill of 1864 (H.R. 244) was a bill "to guarantee to certain States whose governments have been usurped or overthrown a republican form of government...
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    1866–67 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states. As these U.S. Senate elections were prior to the ratification of...
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    Provisional Government which became the Republic of Hawaiʻi, but the ultimate goal was the annexation of the islands to the United States, which was temporarily...
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  • The Southern Homestead Act of 1866 is a United States federal law enacted to break a cycle of debt during the Reconstruction following the American Civil...
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    following day. That failed 1866 Freedmen's Bureau bill was closely related to the Civil Rights Act of 1866. On March 9, 1866, Congressman John Bingham...
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    1918. It was the driving force behind the unification of Germany in 1866 and was the leading state of the German Empire until its dissolution in 1918. Although...
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    attention towards the south of Germany, where it sought to expand its influence. France was strongly opposed to the annexation of the Southern German States...
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  • diplomatic relations with the United States. The annexation bill did not specifically define the boundaries of Texas. The former republic claimed the Rio Grande...
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