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The Communist Control Act of 1954 banned Communist organizations in the United States as antithetical to American government. When direct military conflict was deemed unnecessary, the United States used covert means to combat Soviet influence, providing support to movements that were combating Communist-influenced governments.
The government took its share through duties and taxes, with the remainder going to merchants in Britain. The government spent much of its revenue on the Royal Navy, which protected the British colonies and also threatened the colonies of the other empires, sometimes even seizing them. Thus, the British Navy captured New Amsterdam (New York) in ...
It happened just two days after a deadly mid-air collision between a Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane above Washington D.C. killed 67 people. There were no survivors ...
The illegal mining of silver is now an offense punishable by death; although it becomes a dangerous affair, the high demand for silver also makes it very lucrative, and so many chose to defy the government and continue to mine.
In all, Native American tribes signed 94 treaties during Jackson's two terms, ceding thousands of square miles to the Federal government. The Cherokees insisted on their independence from state government authority and faced expulsion from their lands when a faction of Cherokees signed the Treaty of New Echota in 1835, obtaining money in ...
MORE: DC plane crash live updates: Trump says helicopter 'should have seen where they were going' "I put safety first, Obama, Biden and the Democrats put policy first, and they put politics at a ...
The Post spoke to several aviation experts about a number of factors that may have contributed to the fatal collision.