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