The Bank of North America was chartered in 1781 by the Continental Congress and opened on January 7, 1782, at the prodding of Finance Minister Robert Morris, and was rechartered in 1784. This was thus the first modern United States bank. It was succeeded by the First Bank of the United States. After Robert Morris became superintendent of finance in May 1781 continental currency had ceased. Morris persuaded Congress to charter the bank of North America, the first private commercial bank in the United States. He deposited large quantiti

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• British North America - List of colonies in British North America in 1763
• British North America - BNA colonies after American Revoultion

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Below is a list of the currencies of North America, with exchange rates between each currency and both the Euro and US Dollars as of 17th November 2004. Table correct as of 17th November 2004 ...

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Economy of North America, Economy of North America - Economic development, Economy of North America - 1945–1990, Economy of North America - 1991–2003, Economy of North America - 2004, Economy of North America - Future, Economy of North America - Regional variation, Economy of North America - Currency, Economy of North America - Economic sectors, Economy of North America - Agriculture, Economy of North America - Manufacturing, Economy of North America - Investing and banking, Economy of North America - Global trade relations, Economy of North America - Economy by country/territory

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See major article: History of North America Living conditions were that of large stone apartment like adobe structures. They live in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, and possibly surrounding areas. ...

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History of the Americas, History of the Americas - Migration into the continents, History of the Americas - Before advanced civilizations, History of the Americas - Civilizations, History of the Americas - North America, History of the Americas - Mesoamerica, History of the Americas - South America, History of the Americas - European discovery and following colonization

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In 1602, the government of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands chartered the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, or VOC) with the mission of exploring for a passage to the Indies and claiming any unchartered territories for the United Provinces. In 1609, English explorer Henry Hudson attempted to find a northwest passage to the Indies, instead discovering areas of current United States and Canada, among others giving his name to the Hudson ...

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Dutch colonization of the Americas, Dutch colonization of the Americas - North America, Dutch colonization of the Americas - Caribbean, Dutch colonization of the Americas - Netherlands Antilles, Dutch colonization of the Americas - Virgin Islands, Dutch colonization of the Americas - Tobago, Dutch colonization of the Americas - South America, Dutch colonization of the Americas - Suriname, Dutch colonization of the Americas - Guyana, Dutch colonization of the Americas - Brazil, Dutch colonization of the Americas - Chile

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The French established colonies across the New World in the 17th century. They were developed to export sugar and furs, among other products. Explorers and settlers from France settled in what is now Canada, the Mississippi Valley and along the Gulf coast, in what is now Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, founding the cities of Quebec and Montreal in Canada, and Detroit, Michigan, Saint Louis, Missouri, Mobile, Alabama, Biloxi, Mississippi, Ba ...

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French colonisation of the Americas, French colonisation of the Americas - North America, French colonisation of the Americas - South America, French colonisation of the Americas - Reference

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List of Indigenous people of the Americas - In Canada. Generally referred to as Aboriginal peoples in Canada when looking at the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples collectively. Gary Farmer, actor and filmmaker Graham Greene, actor Tomson Highway, playwright, novelist, and children's author. Louis Riel, politician Buffy Sainte-Marie, musician Cree Summer, voice actress Matthew Coon Come, Na ...

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List of Indigenous people of the Americas, List of Indigenous people of the Americas - North America, List of Indigenous people of the Americas - In Canada, List of Indigenous people of the Americas - In the United States, List of Indigenous people of the Americas - In Mexico, List of Indigenous people of the Americas - In Guatemala, List of Indigenous people of the Americas - In the Caribbean, List of Indigenous people of the Americas - In South America, List of Indigenous people of the Americas - In Colombia, List of Indigenous people of the Americas - In Peru, List of Indigenous people of the Americas - In Paraguay, List of Indigenous people of the Americas - In Chile

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An approximate recipe for U.S. and Canadian lemonade is to mix equal volumes of lemon juice and sugar and add water to taste, approximately four times as much water as lemon juice. About three quarters the volume of sugar is likely to be better to the taste of most people. It is traditionally served cold, preferably with ice. In many upscale supermarkets, tall bottles of supposedly European lemonade can be purchased. These are always carbonated or “sparkling.” Often, these are translucent yellow, more like North American lemonade, though there are occasional ...

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Lemonade, Lemonade - North America, Lemonade - United Kingdom

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Numerous slave rebellions, and insurrections took place in North America during the 18th and 19th centuries. There is documentary evidence of more than 250 uprisings or attempted uprisings involving ten or more slaves. Three of the best known are the revolts by Gabriel in Virginia in 1800, Denmark Vesey in Charleston, South Carolina in 1822, and Nat Turner at Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831. Slave resistance in the antebellum South finally became the focus of historical scholarship in the 1940s, when historian Herbert Aptheker s ...

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Slave rebellion, Slave rebellion - North America, Slave rebellion - List of North American slave revolts, Slave rebellion - South America and Caribbean, Slave rebellion - Europe, Slave rebellion - Bibliography

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In North America the degree is awarded for courses taken that generally lasts two years (one year in some Canadian universities). To gain the qualififcation the student is required to have a previous or substantial progress towards a bachelor's degree, usually in the field that the student wishes to teach in, as well as a good rapport with young children or teens. There are several streams to a Bachelor of Education, each corresponding to the particular level of instruction. For the US, this includes elementary school education, middle school education, and high school education. Students take ...

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Bachelor of Education, Bachelor of Education - North America, Bachelor of Education - United Kingdom

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Classification schemes for indigenous languages of the Americas - Gallatin 1836. (Current terminology is indicated parenthetically in italics.) Families Algonkin-Lenape  (=Algonquian) Athapascas  (=Athabaskan) Catawban  (=Catawba + Woccons) Eskimaux  (=Eskimoan) Iroquois  (=Northern Iroq ...

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Classification schemes for indigenous languages of the Americas, Classification schemes for indigenous languages of the Americas - North America, Classification schemes for indigenous languages of the Americas - Gallatin 1836, Classification schemes for indigenous languages of the Americas - Gallatin 1848, Classification schemes for indigenous languages of the Americas - Powell's 1892 Fifty-eight, Classification schemes for indigenous languages of the Americas - Sapir 1929: Encyclopædia Britannica, Classification schemes for indigenous languages of the Americas - Voegelin & Voegelin 1965: The Consensus of 1964, Classification schemes for indigenous languages of the Americas - Campbell & Mithun 1979: The Black Book, Classification schemes for indigenous languages of the Americas - Greenberg 1987, Classification schemes for indigenous languages of the Americas - Goddard 1996 & Mithun 1999, Classification schemes for indigenous languages of the Americas - Mesoamerica, Classification schemes for indigenous languages of the Americas - South America, Classification schemes for indigenous languages of the Americas - Kaufman 1990, Classification schemes for indigenous languages of the Americas - Bibliography

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Major League Baseball in North America consists of the National League and the American League. Historically, teams in one league never played teams in the other until the World Series, in which the champions of the two leagues played against each other; this changed in 1997 with the advent of interleague play. In addition to the major leagues, many North American cities and towns feature minor league teams. An organization officially styled Minor League Baseball, formerly the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, adm ...

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Professional baseball, Professional baseball - North America, Professional baseball - Japan, Professional baseball - Rest of the world

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Political and economic emigration since mid-19th century. Polonia - United States. The number of Polish Americans is 10 million. Most of them live in the north-eastern part of the country, notably the states of New York, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Chicago is considered the largest Polish city outside Poland. The major Polonia organization is the Polish American Congress. Polonia - Canada. There are about 850 thousand Polish Canadians. The Canadian Polish Congress is a blanket organization to organize activities and to articulate the c ...

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Polonia, Polonia - North America, Polonia - United States, Polonia - Canada, Polonia - Europe, Polonia - Germany, Polonia - France, Polonia - Britain, Polonia - Czech Republic, Polonia - Kresy, Polonia - Latin America, Polonia - Russia and Kazakhstan, Polonia - Australia, Polonia - Asia Africa Oceania

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In the United States and most of the rest of North America as well, terrestrial television underwent a revolutionary transformation with the eventual acceptance of the NTSC standard for color television broadcasts in 1953. Later, Europe and the rest of the world either chose between the later PAL and SÉCAM color television standards, or adopted NTSC. In addition to the threat from CATV, analog terrestrial television is now also subject to competition from satellite television and distribution of video and film content over the Intern ...

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Terrestrial television, Terrestrial television - North America, Terrestrial television - Europe

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A luxury range of large cars wore the LTD badge from 1965 to 1991 in the United States. The LTD name debuted as a high-line option package on the Galaxie 500, but became a separate model for 1967. The Ford Galaxie name continued for the lower levels. In 1975, the LTD name took over completely, although the long-standing economy line, the Custom 500, remained available through 1978 for fleet sales in the US and as a full line in Canada. The LTD often shared its grille and trim pieces with the Galaxie XL sport coupe and the Country Squire stat ...

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Ford LTD, Ford LTD - North America, Ford LTD - Australia, Ford LTD - In fiction, Ford LTD - External link

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The Master of Theology (Th.M. or M.Th.) is a postgraduate Masters degree which is typically earned after one has already completed a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) or a Master of Theological Studies. This is generally a one or two year specialized advanced degree that many students undertake in order to better prepare for Ph.D. studies. Additonally, many international theological students come to the United States to pursue the Th.M. before applying for Ph.D. work in order to gain greater English proficiency. A comparable degree, the Master of Sacr ...

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Master of Theology, Master of Theology - North America, Master of Theology - University of St Andrews

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The first recognition of the singer-songwriter as a musical genre in North America occurred in the 1960s and early 1970s when a series of folk- and country-influenced musicians rose to prominence and popularity. These early singer-songwriters included Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot, David Blue, Carly Simon, Cat Stevens, Bruce Cockburn, Van Morrison, Townes van Zandt, Harry Chapin, and James Taylor. People who had been primarily songwriters, notably Carole King, also began releasing work ...

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Singer-songwriter, Singer-songwriter - Distinguishing singers from songwriters and vice versa., Singer-songwriter - Latin traditions, Singer-songwriter - North America

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The nation-states of North America are either federal nation-states (e.g., Canada, United States, Mexico), quasi-federal (e.g., Denmark - the autonomous province of Kalaallit Nunaat or Greenland is in North America), or unitary states (the nation-states of Central America and the Caribbean, including France and the Netherlands, which have colonial or territorial entities in North America; likewi ...

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Urban secession, Urban secession - History, Urban secession - Theory of Urban Secession, Urban secession - Successful City-States, Urban secession - North America, Urban secession - Urban Secession in the United States, Urban secession - Urban Secession in Canada

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The nation-states of North America are either federal nation-states (e.g., Canada, United States, Mexico), quasi-federal (e.g., Denmark - the autonomous province of Kalaallit Nunaat or Greenland is in North America), or unitary states (the nation-states of Central America and the Caribbean, including France and the Netherlands, which have colonial or territorial entities in North America; likewi ...

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Urban secession, Urban secession - History, Urban secession - Theory of urban secession, Urban secession - Successful city-states, Urban secession - North America, Urban secession - Urban secession in the United States, Urban secession - Urban secession in Canada

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In North America the recession is the sharpest of any on record. The economy shrank by a considerably larger percentage than it did in the Great Depression. However, the recession was very short lived. Factories soon retooled and adapted to producing consumer goods. The new factories began producing products such as radios and automobiles. Women, who had entered the work force in large numbers during the war, mostly left the fields and factories opening jobs for returning soldiers. The glut of labour also caused wages to fall dramatically. S ...

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Post-WWI recession, Post-WWI recession - North America, Post-WWI recession - Europe

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