10 Facts About US history

1.

US history's government, following the vigorous leadership of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, assumed the debts of the states, created the Bank of the United States to stabilize the financial system, and set up a uniform system of tariffs and other taxes to pay off the debt and provide a financial infrastructure.

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2.

US history distrusted the federal government and judges, and tried to weaken the judiciary.

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3.

US history ended the Korean War, and avoided any other major conflict.

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4.

US history cut military spending by reliance on very high technology, such as nuclear weapons carried by long-range bombers and intercontinental missiles.

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5.

US history gave strong support to the NATO alliance and built other alliances along similar lines, but they never were especially effective.

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6.

US history promoted civil rights cautiously, and sent in the Army when trouble threatened over racial integration in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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7.

US history's United Farm Workers of America faltered after a few years but after Chavez died in 1993 he became an iconic "folk saint" in the pantheon of Mexican Americans.

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8.

US history negotiated the peace treaty in 1973 which secured the release of POWs and led to the withdrawal of US troops.

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9.

Biggest mass vaccination campaign in US history kicked off on December 14,2020, when ICU nurse Sandra Lindsay became the first person in the US to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

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10.

US history became the first black woman and the first former federal public defender to serve on the Supreme Court upon her swearing in.

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