Studies have shown that about 2 million people of Mexican Heritage were removed from this country without due process and sent to Mexico. Studies have also shown that of these people, roughly were American Citizens.

During his inaugural address Roosevelt felt that he needed to assure the American people that that did not need to be afraid for their future any longer. He wanted to begin the process of beginning to restore faith in the American system after four years of constant economic and political failure.

The Espionage Act of 1917 was passed during World War One. Its stated intention was to prohibit any interference with the working of the United States Army and to eliminate any assistance that might have been provided to the enemies; however, it was quickly amended to outlaw any form of dissent or protest against the war effort. It famously resulted in the arrest of Socialist Party leader Eugene Debs (as well as, much later, the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg). The Act has consistently held up in the Supreme Court despite its apparent violation of the Freedom of Speech.

Bill Clinton won the Presidential Election in 1992 with a plurality of the votes, as a three way race between Clinton, President George Bush, and Texas billionaire Ross Perot created odd electoral coalitions. Clinton's coalition did see a new Democratic Party base emerge, however, by keeping urban liberals and African-Americans who had voted for Democrats in previous elections, and also appealing to moderate voters and young voters who felt lost in either party previously.

On January 20th, 1961, John F. Kennedy delivered this famous inaugural address in Washington.

This tariff act caused a series of retaliatory tariffs on American goods overseas, thus causing a massive decline in American exports. This meant the American production industry lost a large part of its business and caused many industries to begin going out of business.

Strom Thurmond ran on the 1948 presidential ticket under the banner of the short-lived segregationist States' Rights Democratic Party, better known as the Dixiecrats.

The Twenty-Second Amendment was passed in 1951 in response to the four-term Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. It finally codified into law the precedent established by George Washington that no President could serve more than two terms. Roosevelt was the only President to exceed this limit before it became law. The right to vote for eighteen-year-olds came about in the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, women’s suffrage was the Nineteenth, prohibition, the Eighteenth, and congressional pay, the Twenty-Seventh.

Hoover wanted to clean up the cities of America, which were suffering from an organized crime epidemic. So he instructed the Justice Department and FBI to use whatever charges they could to get these men off the streets. This included sending them to prison for not paying taxes.

This act, passed in 1930, raised taxes to the highest levels in a hundred years. This was meant to both raise revenue for the federal government and encourage American production.