How did the space race affect schools?

The launch of Sputnik spurred the Space Race, which was a Cold War competition between America and Russia to lead space exploration. As part of the Space Race, STEM Education was given more funds and became a focus in schools, starting with the 1958 National Defense Education Act, or NDEA

lincoln declared that slavery should not be allowed to spread into the new states, and of course this angered the south at the time.

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