The Progressive Era In Depth

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The Wilmot Proviso was a bill that failed to become law prohibiting slavery in new U.S. territories west of the Mississippi River. Despite its three-time failure to pass, It did successfully provoke a nationwide debate over slavery.

Ho Chi Minh was a proponent of communism to liberate Vietnam from the imperialist west and would organize the Viet Minh Party or League for the Independence of Vietnam.

The Aztec Empire of Mesoamerica culminated in Tenochtitlán, a civilization that employed sophisticated irrigation and agriculture practices. In 1519, Hernan Cortés would eradicate the city with superior weaponry and foreign disease.

In March of 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision on the Dred Scott case of slavery status within free-states, citing African American exclusion from the Constitution and its unalienable rights.

The battle of Inchon, or Inch’on, was a decisive engagement during the Korean War where allied forces led by General Douglas MacArthur successfully neutralized North Korean troops and liberated Seoul, South Korea.

Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year and translates to the “head of the year.” For the next ten days leading up to Yom Kippur, practicing Jews believe God judges all living creatures and decides whether they are righteous or condemned to death.

Fascism was a far-right, authoritarian ultranationalist ideology that emerged from Europe in WWI and ended with WWII. The regimes and results of Mussolini and Hitler sealed the fate of another failed experiment in governance.