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  2. Oppression - Wikipedia

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    The tyrant's tools of oppression include, for example, extremely harsh punishments for "unpatriotic" statements; developing a secret police force; prohibiting freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press; controlling the monetary system and economy; and imprisoning or killing activists or other leaders who might pose a ...

  3. List of rebellions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Confederate States of America: Seven Southern slave states seceded from the United States of America in response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as president. [21] Four more Southern states seceded in response to Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers to put down the rebellion. [22] These states formed the Confederate States of America.

  4. Political repression - Wikipedia

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    Goldstein, Robert Justin, Political Repression in Modern America (University of Illinois Press, 1978, 2001) ISBN 0-8467-0301-7. Jensen, Joan M. Army Surveillance in America, 1775 - 1980. New Haven. Yale University Press. 1991. ISBN 0-300-04668-5. Talbert Jr. Roy. Negative Intelligence: The Army and the American Left, 1917 - 1941. Jackson.

  5. Criticism of the United States government - Wikipedia

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    Criticism of the United States government encompasses a wide range of sentiments about the actions and policies of the United States. Historically, domestic and international criticism of the United States has been driven by its embracement of classical economics, manifest destiny, hemispheric exclusion and exploitation of the Global South, military intervention, and alleged practice of ...

  6. Combahee River Collective - Wikipedia

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    The Collective is perhaps best known for developing the Combahee River Collective Statement, [7] [8] a key document in the history of contemporary Black feminism and the development of the concepts of identity politics as used among political organizers and social theorists, [9] [10] and for introducing the concept of interlocking systems of ...

  7. Slave rebellion and resistance in the United States - Wikipedia

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    There were many ways that most slaves would either openly rebel or quietly resist due to the oppressive systems of slavery. [2] According to Herbert Aptheker , "there were few phases of ante-bellum Southern life and history that were not in some way influenced by the fear of, or the actual outbreak of, militant concerted slave action."

  8. U.S. policy toward authoritarian governments - Wikipedia

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    U.S. officials have been accused of collaborating with oppressive and anti-democratic governments to secure their military bases in Central America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. The Economist Democracy Index classifies many of the forty-five currently non-democratic U.S. military base host countries as "authoritarian governments".

  9. Freedom of speech in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A Distant Heritage: The Growth of Free Speech in Early America. New York: New York University Press, 1995. Godwin, Mike (1998). Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age. New York: Times Books. ISBN 0-8129-2834-2. Rabban, David M. (1999). Free Speech in Its Forgotten Years, 1870–1920. New York: Cambridge University Press.