• Events from the year 1933 in the United States. President: Herbert Hoover (R-California) (until March 4) Franklin D. Roosevelt (D-New York) (starting March...
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    The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic...
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    The 1932 United States Senate elections coincided with Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt's landslide victory over incumbent Herbert Hoover in the presidential...
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  • 1933 United States elections included: Mayoral elections 1933 Boston mayoral election 1933 Cleveland mayoral election 1933 Los Angeles mayoral election...
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  • Constitution on December 5, 1933. In 1919, the requisite number of state legislatures ratified the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, enabling...
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    The 1933 double eagle is a United States 20-dollar gold coin. Although 445,500 specimens of this Saint-Gaudens double eagle were minted in 1933 in the...
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    The Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States is a treaty signed at Montevideo, Uruguay, on December 26, 1933, during the Seventh International...
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    issued by the United States Treasury as a form of representative money from 1865 to 1933. While the United States observed a gold standard, the certificates...
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    The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral...
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    an act passed by the United States Congress in March 1933 in an attempt to stabilize the banking system. Beginning on February 14, 1933, Michigan, an industrial...
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  • Religion in the United States is both widespread and diverse, with higher reported levels of belief than other wealthy Western nations. Polls indicate...
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    alcohol. The Twenty-first Amendment was proposed by the 72nd Congress on February 20, 1933, and was ratified by the requisite number of states on December...
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    The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal...
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    punishment for crime is still legal in the United States. By the time of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), the status of enslaved people had been...
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    Christianity is the prevalent religion in the United States. A Gallup survey from 2023 indicates that of the entire U.S. population (332 million) about...
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    The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the executive branch...
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    designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution. The Army is the oldest branch of the U.S. military and the most senior in order of precedence...
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    The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC. After European colonization...
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    The 1933 United States Senate special election in Virginia was held on November 7, 1933. Byrd had been appointed to fill the vacancy left by Claude A....
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    In the United States, beer is manufactured in breweries which range in size from industry giants to brew pubs and microbreweries. The United States produced...
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    In the United States, banking had begun by the 1780s, along with the country's founding. It has developed into a highly influential and complex system...
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    In the United States, military conscription, commonly known as the draft, has been employed by the U.S. federal government in six conflicts: the American...
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    Pornography has existed since the origins of the United States, and has become more readily accessible in the 21st century. Advanced by technological...
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    The second lady of the United States or second gentleman (SLOTUS or SGOTUS) is the informal title held by the spouse of the vice president of the United...
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  • In the United States, conservatism is based on a belief in individualism, traditionalism, republicanism, and limited federal governmental power in relation...
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  • This is a list of events in the year 2018 in the United States. President: Donald Trump (R-New York) Vice President: Mike Pence (R-Indiana) Chief Justice:...
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    The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Since the late 1850s, its main political rival has been...
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  • Liberalism in the United States is based on concepts of unalienable rights of the individual. The fundamental liberal ideals of consent of the governed...
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    Protestantism is the largest grouping of Christians in the United States, with its combined denominations collectively comprising about 43% of the country's...
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    reestablished until 1933. From 1933 to 1991, the United States recognized the Soviet Union. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the ambassador's title...
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