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  2. Prohibition in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. [1] The alcohol industry was curtailed by a succession of state legislatures, and Prohibition was formally introduced nationwide under the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified on January 16, 1919.

  3. Race and ethnicity in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The category includes people who are of full or partial Hispanic or Latino origin. They typically have origins in the Spanish-speaking nations of Latin America, although a few also come from other places (0.2% of Hispanic and Latino Americans were born in Asia, for example). [82] The group is heterogeneous in race and national ancestry.

  4. List of automobile manufacturers of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Founded in 1900 as the Grabowsky Motor Company, renamed the Rapid Motor Vehicle Company in 1902. Rapid was acquired in 1909 by General Motors, which merged it with the Reliance Motor Car Company in 1911 to form the General Motors Truck Company (GMTC). In 1912 the two brands were replaced with the GMC brand. Stellantis: Chrysler

  5. List of United States electric companies - Wikipedia

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    Interstate Power and Light Company; L&O Power Co-op; Marshall Municipal Utilities; Minnkota Power Cooperative, and its 11 member cooperatives; Minnesota Power; Missouri River Energy; Northern States Power Company, a subsidiary of Xcel Energy; People's Co-op Tri-County Electric; Otter Tail Power Company; Rochester Public Utilities Commission

  6. RTX Corporation - Wikipedia

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    RTX Corporation, formerly Raytheon Technologies Corporation, [3] [4] is an American multinational aerospace and defense conglomerate headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.It is one of the largest aerospace and defense manufacturers in the world by revenue and market capitalization, as well as one of the largest providers of intelligence services.

  7. List of countries in the Americas by population - Wikipedia

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  8. History of Native Americans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Na-Dené-speaking peoples entered North America starting around 8000 BCE, reaching the Pacific Northwest by 5000 BCE, [13] and from there migrating along the Pacific Coast and into the interior. Linguists, anthropologists, and archeologists believe their ancestors constituted a separate migration into North America, later than the first Paleo ...

  9. Slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    By the time of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), the status of enslaved people had been institutionalized as a racial caste associated with African ancestry. [2] During and immediately following the Revolution, abolitionist laws were passed in most Northern states and a movement developed to abolish slavery.