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		<title><![CDATA[Gettysburg Address]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Gettysburg Address was delivered by President Lincoln on November 19,1863 at the dedication of the Soldiers&#039; National Cemetery. The speech was given four and a half months after the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entry.php?rec=563]]></link>
		<pubDate>2010-05-31 07:44:37</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[James &quot;Pete&quot; Longstreet]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Confederate General James Longstreet is one of the most controversial figures of the American Civil War, because of his actions at the Battle of Gettysburg and his later criticism of General Robert E. Lee.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entry.php?rec=545]]></link>
		<pubDate>2010-03-23 11:54:51</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Winter at Valley Forge]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite harsh conditions and a lack of supplies, the Continental Army trained under the tutelage of Baron von Steuben and the guidance of George Washington at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania during the winter of 1777-1778.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entry.php?rec=533]]></link>
		<pubDate>2009-12-23 08:33:06</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Federalist Number 3]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Federalist No. 3 was written by John Jay and published on November 3, 1787. It is the second of four articles dealing with protecting Americans against foreign aggression and meddling in national affairs.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entry.php?rec=499]]></link>
		<pubDate>2009-10-21 06:33:46</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sugar Act  (1764)]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Sugar Act, properly known as the American Revenue Act, was enacted by Parliament on April 5, 1764. The goal of the act was to raise revenue to help defray the military costs of protecting the American colonies at a time Great Britain&#039;s economy was saddled with the huge national debt accumulated during the French and Indian War (aka Seven Years War). The focus of the Sugar Act was to discourage colonial merchants and manufacturers from smuggling non-British goods to avoid taxes imposed by Parliament. The Sugar Act successfully reduced smuggling, but it greatly disrupted the economy of the American colonies by increasing the cost of many imported items, and reducing exports to non-British markets. As a result, Americans protested the Sugar Act primarily because of its economic impact, but for some &quot;no taxation without representation&quot; became a rallying cry against Parliament&#039;s right to tax the colonies.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entry.php?rec=494]]></link>
		<pubDate>2009-10-13 10:42:21</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[XYZ Affair
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		<description><![CDATA[The XYZ Affair was a diplomatic incident between France and the United States that resulted in a limited, undeclared naval war with France known as the Quasi-War.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entry.php?rec=480]]></link>
		<pubDate>2009-09-28 10:10:29</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Thomas Paine (1737-1809)]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Paine was a Founding Father, the philosopher of the American War for Independence, and a true revolutionary. His essays and pamphlets, especially Common Sense, noted for its plain language, resonated with the common people of America and roused them to rally behind the movement for independence. Following the American Revolution, Paine immigrated to Europe where the British government declared him and outlaw for his anti-monarchist views, and where he actively participated in the French Revolution. ]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entry.php?rec=472]]></link>
		<pubDate>2009-09-19 15:29:19</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[First Continental Congress (1774)]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The First Continental Congress met in Carpenter&#039;s Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, 1774 until October 26, 1774. The meeting was called in response to acts of the British Parliament, collectively known in the Colonies as the Intolerable Acts. Among other things, those acts closed Boston Harbor until Bostonians paid for tea destroyed during the Boston Tea Party. The First Continental Congress helped define common grievances against Great Britain and solidified colonial resolve to band together to encourage or force Parliament to address those grievances.
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		<link><![CDATA[http://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entry.php?rec=470]]></link>
		<pubDate>2009-09-18 10:25:18</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Benjamin Franklin (1706 -1790)]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Benjamin Franklin was a Founding Father, member of the Continental Congress, signer of the Declaration of Independence and signer of the United States Constitution. Arguably, the most accomplished individual in American history, he was also a successful printer, publisher, scientist, inventor, diplomat, civic leader, statesman, and philosopher.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entry.php?rec=469]]></link>
		<pubDate>2009-09-17 19:37:11</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[First Barbary War (1801-1805)]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The First Barbary War was an undeclared war waged by the United States against the North African states of Morocco, Tripoli, Algiers, and Tunis. The principle cause of the war was that those states harbored and supported the actions of pirates against American shipping vessels in the Mediterranean Sea. The war, which lasted from 1801 to 1805, did not completely end the acts of piracy against American vessels, but it did prove that the United States was capable of waging war, if necessary, in places far from its own shores. ]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entry.php?rec=468]]></link>
		<pubDate>2009-09-16 02:03:09</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Alexander Hamilton&#039;s Speech to the New York Convention (1788)]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alexander Hamilton&#039;s speech to the New York Convention delivered on June 24, 1788.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entry.php?rec=467]]></link>
		<pubDate>2009-09-15 06:46:13</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Paul Revere (1734-1818)]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paul Revere was an American patriot who was an active participant in the movement for independence before the American Revolution. His famous &quot;Midnight Ride&quot; from Boston to Lexington, on April 18, 1775, to warn American patriots about advancing British troops was later immortalized in a poem written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in the 1860s.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entry.php?rec=466]]></link>
		<pubDate>2009-09-14 09:14:49</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Samuel Adams (1722-1803)]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Samuel Adams was a Founding Father, member of the Continental Congress, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, and a leading proponent of colonial independence from Great Britain. After the Revolution, Adams served four terms as Governor of Massachusetts.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entry.php?rec=465]]></link>
		<pubDate>2009-09-12 08:58:14</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Benjamin Rush (1745-1813)]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Benjamin Rush was a Founding Father, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Member of the Continental Army, and advocate for the ratification of the United States Constitution. Rush was also a prominent physician, educator, and proponent of women&#039;s rights and the abolition of slavery.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entry.php?rec=464]]></link>
		<pubDate>2009-09-11 11:40:15</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Aaron Burr (1756-1836)]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aaron Burr was a U.S. Senator and Vice President of the United States under Thomas Jefferson. Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in an infamous duel in 1804. He was also tried and acquitted for treason against the United States for allegedly trying to establish a separate empire in the southwest.]]></description>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entry.php?rec=463]]></link>
		<pubDate>2009-09-11 06:51:20</pubDate>
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