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Brigham Young
Mormon prophet and colonizer who led 70,000 people into the desert and built a civilization
Malcolm X
The civil rights era's most uncompromising voice for Black self-determination and human dignity
Martin Luther King Jr.
Baptist minister who led the American civil rights movement
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Father of American Transcendentalism and prophet of self-reliance
Roger Williams
Puritan exile who founded Rhode Island and first argued that church and state must be separate
William Jennings Bryan
The Great Commoner — three-time presidential candidate and prairie populist
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Plymouth Colony
The Pilgrim settlement of 1620 — first successful English colony in New England
St. Augustine
The Spanish presidio in Florida — oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the United States
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Colonial America
The 168 years of English settlement that built the society the Revolution would transform, 1607–1775
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Assassination of Malcolm X
The 1965 killing of a defining voice of Black radicalism
Prohibition Era
The national ban on alcohol that lasted from 1920 to 1933
The First Thanksgiving
The 1621 harvest feast at Plymouth and the myth that grew around it
The Waco Siege
The 1993 standoff that ended in fire and fueled the militia movement
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Eighteenth Amendment
The Constitutional Ban on Alcohol That Created Prohibition, 1919–1933
Mayflower Compact
The 1620 shipboard agreement that planted the seed of American self-governance
Concepts
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Evangelical Christianity
The faith of revivals, reform movements, and the most durable political coalition in modern American history
First Great Awakening
The 1730s–1740s religious revival that made Americans a people before they were a nation
Judaism in America
From a 1654 landing in New Amsterdam to the largest Jewish diaspora community in history
Mormonism
The only major religion born in America — and the only one expelled from multiple states at gunpoint
Puritanism
The theology that named America a chosen nation — and what survived when the faith faded
Separation of Church and State
The constitutional principle Jefferson named, the courts refined, and America has been arguing about ever since
Temperance Movement
The campaign against alcohol that reshaped American social and political life
The Second Great Awakening
The religious revival that reshaped American faith, reform, and politics, 1800–1840
Transcendentalism
The New England movement that gave America its philosophy of individual conscience
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