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the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is born when U.S. Attorney General Charles Bonaparte orders a group of newly hired federal investigators to report to Chief Examiner Stanley W. Finch of the Department of Justice.

up until just before the U.S. declared war on April 6th, 1917, the U.S. had desperately tried to stay neutral, but ties to Britain, propaganda, the sinking of ships by German U-boats, and a German attempt in the Zimmermann Note to get Mexico to declare war on the U.S. pushed the U.S. to getting involved.

Warren G. Harding transferred supervision of the naval oil-reserve lands from the navy to the Department of the Interior, and secretly granted to Harry F. Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Company exclusive rights to the Teapot Dome (Wyoming) reserves

American legal case in which a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.

The stock market crash was not the sole cause of the Great Depression, but it did act to accelerate the global economic collapse. During it nearly half of America's banks had failed, and unemployment was approaching 15 million people, or 30 percent of the workforce.

The federal government established a minimum wage in a law called the Fair Labor Standards Act, which also marked the first time that employers were legally required to pay workers overtime for certain jobs. At the time the law passed, the country's first minimum wage was $0.25 per hour (about $4 today)

The United States entered the war because of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. The United States had a vested interest in the war in Europe; and had supplied ships to Britain through the Lend Lease Program as the British Navy was America's primary protection from attack in the Atlantic.

The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control, so the usa was forced to airlift supplies to west

Term limits on the president didn't exist until the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. This was in response to FDR being elected four times, Congress pushed through the amendment that limited a president to two terms

This was Martin Luther King's Most Famous Speech. he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" Speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.This speech was important because It brought even greater attention to the Civil Rights Movement, which had been going on for many years.

This was the nation's premier civil rights legislation. The Act outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, required equal access to public places and employment, and enforced desegregation of schools and the right to vote.