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“. . . With America’s sons in the fields far away, with America’s future under challenge right here at home, with our hopes and the world’s hopes for peace in the balance every day, I do not believe that I should devote an hour or a day of my time to any personal partisan causes or to any duties other than the awesome duties of this office—the Presidency of your country.
Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President. . . .”
— President Lyndon B. Johnson, March 31, 1968
Thedecisionannouncedinthisspeechwasbased primarily on the

A belief in Manifest Destiny is most closely associated with the decision to

Shays’ Rebellion of 1786 was significant because it

Which event most influenced President Woodrow Wilson’s decision to enter World War I?

“Security Council Approves Use of Force Against
Communist Invaders”
“President Truman Fires General MacArthur” “Armistice Divides Nation at 38th Parallel”
These headlines refer to which international conflict?

In the early 20th century, what was the primary cause of the large-scale migration of African Americans out of the rural South?

During the late 1800s, major improvements to a nationwide system of trade were made with the

“...Everythingthatisrightorreasonablepleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, ’TIS TIME TO PART. . . .”
— Thomas Paine, Common Sense
In this quotation, Thomas Paine is trying to convince the colonists to

One of the major causes of the stock market crash of 1929 was

PresidentGeorgeWashingtonsetaprecedentfor all future presidents by

The Progressive movement supported the idea that the federal government should

The Great Compromise reached at the Constitutional Convention resulted in the

What was the main cause of the French and Indian War (1754–1763)?

The United States committed to a Cold War policy of mutual defense when it

The United States government is creating memorials along the Trail of Tears because it was

The presence of which pair of geographic conditions discouraged the development of a plantation economy in the New England colonies?

A goal that was established at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 was achieved in 1920 by the

Which policy of the United States was designed to prevent new colonization of the Western Hemisphere?

President Harry Truman changed the United States military after World War II by

Many of the songs, movies, and books of the 1930s are similar in that they