Examples of Forty-Eighters in the following topics:
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- Following the Revolutions of 1848 in Germany, a wave of political refugees fled to America who became known as "Forty-Eighters."
- Prominent Forty-Eighters included Carl Schurz and Henry Villard.
- Sentiment among German Americans was largely antislavery, especially among Forty-Eighters.
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- Sentiment among German Americans was largely antislavery, especially among Forty-Eighters.
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- The gold-seekers, known as "forty-niners" (as a reference to the year 1849), often faced substantial hardships on the trip.
- A forty-niner, so called because he was one of the men who came to California in 1849, pans for gold.
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- To escape the Ku Klux Klan, the White League, and the Jim Crow laws, which continued to make them second-class citizens after Reconstruction, as many as forty thousand Exodusters left the South to settle in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado.
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- Forty-six states participated in the election, as Oklahoma had joined the Union less than a year before, and Bryan won 48 counties there.
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- By the 1920s, it was in more than forty countries and had more than 766,000 members paying dues at its peak in 1927.
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- Forty-nine state chapters were also created as independent corporations within their states, including the Christian Coalition of Texas.
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- Republicans had not held the majority in the House for forty years, since the 83rd Congress (elected in 1952).
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- The forty-hour workweek established by the Fair Labor Standards Act in covered industries became the actual schedule in most workplaces by 1960.
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- In a seminal deal, in 1868, the Lake Shore Railroad, a part of the New York Central, gave Rockefeller's firm a going rate of one cent a gallon or forty-two cents a barrel, an effective 71% discount from its listed rates in return for a promise to ship at least 60 carloads of oil daily and to handle the loading and unloading on its own.