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- U.S. Senate [r]: The upper house of the United States Congress. [e]
- North Carolina (U.S. state) [r]: A state in the southeastern region of the United States [e]
- North Carolina Supreme Court [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Watergate scandal [r]: Add brief definition or description
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- Civil liberties [r]: A concept very similar to that of human rights, the concept and/or its scope often being contentious. [e]
- Civil rights movement [r]: In the narrow construction, the U.S. movement to end segregation, beginning with the student lunch-counter sit-ins in the 1950s and ending with the passage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965. In broader construction, the ongoing human rights and liberation movements for full civil rights for African Americans and other racial, ethnic, religious, gender, ability, life-style and other minorities. One of the characteristics of this latter sense is widespread disagreement on what to include in the movement (or exclude from it). [e]
- Joe McCarthy [r]: (1908-1957) Republican United States Senator from Wisconsin, 1946-57 who dominated the anti-communist movement in the U.S., 1950-54, until his career was ruined by censure by the Senate. [e]
- My Lai [r]: Hamlet in Quang Ngai Province, site of a massacre of several hundred women and children in March 1968, just after the Tet offensive. [e]
- Bicameral legislature [r]: A legislature divided into two deliberative bodies. [e]
- Secession Crisis [r]: (1860-1861) event in U.S. history during which eleven states seceded from the Union. [e]
- Confederate States of America [r]: Government formed by eleven southern states of the United States between 1861 and 1865, during the American Civil War. [e]