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Fort McPherson National Cemetery (category 1873 establishments in Nebraska)
James B. McPherson, who was killed in action at the Battle of Atlanta. A cemetery was created along with the fort. In 1873, 20 acres (8.1 ha) were set aside

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National Cemetery System (category 1867 establishments in the United States)
cemetery was established in 1849 and became a national cemetery in 2020—one of 11 cemeteries transferred from the Army to NCA in 2019–2020 per Exec. Order

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Nebraska (category 1867 establishments in the United States)
presidential election in Nebraska, 2016.svg The Government of Nebraska operates under the framework of the Nebraska Constitution, adopted in 1875, and is divided

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Colorado (category 1861 establishments in Colorado Territory) (section Significant initiatives and legislation enacted in Colorado)
Colorado in the 1930s saw the last wild wolf in the state shot in 1945. A wolf pack recolonized Moffat County, Colorado in northwestern Colorado in 2019.

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Iowa (category 1846 establishments in Iowa)
some of their land in the Mississippi Valley to the U.S. in 1832 in the Black Hawk Purchase Treaty and sold their remaining land in Iowa in 1842, most of them

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President (category 1789 establishments in the United States) (section Commander-in-chief)
Calhoun playing key roles in shaping national policy in the 1830s and 1840s until debates over slavery began pulling the nation apart in the 1850s. Abraham Lincoln's

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South Dakota (category 1889 establishments in the United States)
after the completion of an eastern railway link to Yankton in 1873. In 1874, gold was discovered in the Black Hills during a military expedition led by George

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Senate (category 1789 establishments in the United States)
Johnson in 1868, Bill Clinton in 1998, and Donald Trump in 2019 and 2021. The trials of Johnson, Clinton and both Trump trials ended in acquittal; in Johnson's

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California (category 1850 establishments in California)
areas in the west to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the east, and from the redwood and Douglas fir forests in the northwest to the Mojave Desert in the southeast

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Montana (category 1889 establishments in the United States)
gold discovered in Montana was at Gold Creek near present-day Garrison in 1852. The Gold rush in the region commenced in earnest starting in 1862. A series

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United Nations (category 1945 establishments in the United States)
mission in the face of ethnic cleansing. In 1994, the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda failed to intervene in the Rwandan genocide amidst indecision in the

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Bureau of Indian Affairs (category Articles with invalid date parameter in template)
the establishment of the Bureau of Indian Affairs by Secretary of War John C. Calhoun in 1824. The BIA gained statutory authority in 1832, and in 1849

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Federal Reserve System (category 1913 establishments in Washington, D.C.) (section Central banking in the United States, 1791–1913)
particularly severe crisis in 1907 led Congress to enact the Federal Reserve Act in 1913. Today the Federal Reserve System has responsibilities in addition to stabilizing

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World War II (category Articles with invalid date parameter in template) (section War breaks out in Europe (1939–1940))
counter-offensive in early 1940. In August, Chinese communists launched an offensive in Central China; in retaliation, Japan instituted harsh measures in occupied

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