Topic: Reform
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Suffragette Parade in Brooklyn
This peaceful demonstration in favor of voting rights for women occurred in Brooklyn, New York, in 1920. Later that year, women’s suffrage became law when Tennessee became the thirty-sixth state...
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The Congress of Tucuman
In 1816, the Congress of Tucumán, shown here, declared independence from the Spanish Empire. The congress met in what is now Argentina, but it also included delegates from modern-day Uruguay...
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall
In this photograph, a man takes a sledge hammer to the Berlin Wall’s graffiti-filled west side. In 1961, Communist officials built the wall to prevent East Berliners from entering free...
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Thomas Jefferson
Gilbert Stuart, probably the leading portrait painter in the early American republic, produced this image of Jefferson in 1805, when the sixty-two-year-old Virginian was beginning his second term as president....
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