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A Latin phrase meaning "One from many," the phrase offered a strong statement of the American determination to form a single nation from a collection of states.
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A document that officially records the proclamation that the United States is an independent country
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It protects various individual liberties of American citizens.
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the political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of native or indigenous inhabitants over those of immigrants, including the support of immigration-restriction measures.
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It guarantees civil rights and liberties to the individual like freedom of speech, press, and religion
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The process by which the government may seize private property with proper compensation, but without the owner's consent
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a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state
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Liberty, Egalitarianism, Individualism, Populism, and Laissez-faire.
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an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.
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a United States naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century." -
advocated the westernization of Hawaiian government and culture -
He served most famously as the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front during World War I -
an important leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the United States and advocated for world peace
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She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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They are apartment houses that barely meet or fail to meet the minimum standards of safety, sanitation, and comfort.
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an American sociologist, socialist, historian and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist
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the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. -
was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for Governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres.
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organizations that provided support services to the urban poor and European immigrants, often including education, healthcare, childcare, and employment resources.
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He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, gathered 35 machine guns, killing at least 25 enemy soldiers and capturing 132 prisoners -
provided detailed, accurate journalistic accounts of the political and economic corruption and social hardships caused by the power of big business in a rapidly industrializing United States
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a violent labor dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred in 1892 in Homestead, Pennsylvania
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allows Congress to levy a tax on income from any source without apportioning it among the states and without regard to the census.
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a mass exodus of prospecting migrants from their hometowns to Canadian Yukon Territory and Alaska after gold was discovered there in 1896
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a power reserved to the voters to propose legislation, by petition, that would enact, amend or repeal a City Charter or Code provision.
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a direct vote by the electorate on a proposal, law, or political issue. This is in contrast to an issue being voted on by a representative.
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a period of armed conflict between Spain and the United States. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine -
Hemingway, Matisse, Picasso, Pound, Anderson and F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is thanks to Stein and Hemingway that “The Lost Generation” lives on -
an artificial 82 km waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean and divides North and South America. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a conduit for maritime trade -
a power reserved to the voters that allows the voters, by petition, to demand the removal of an elected official.
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allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators
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The immediate cause of World War I that made the aforementioned items come into play (alliances, imperialism, militarism, nationalism) was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. -
conserving unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the National Park System for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations.
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The attack on Lusitania, the unrestricted submarine warfare on American ships heading to Britain, and Germany encouraging Mexico to attack the USA -
prohibited the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors"
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Granted women right to vote
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the physical location of the New York City-centered music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century -
“Roaring 20s" or "Jazz Age." It was a decade of prosperity and dissipation, and of jazz bands, bootleggers, raccoon coats, bathtub gin, flappers, flagpole sitters, bootleggers, and marathon dancers. -
a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923. -
granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S -
limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota -
an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning -
a global economic and political crisis that culminated in the Second World War -
severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930s. As high winds and choking dust swept the region from Texas to Nebraska, people and livestock were killed and crops failed across the entire region -
the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident -
one of two agencies that supply deposit insurance to depositors in American depository institutions, the other being the National Credit Union Administration -
The new agency was asked to tackle important problems facing the valley, such as flooding, providing electricity to homes and businesses, and replanting forests. Other TVA responsibilities written in the act included improving travel on the Tennessee River and helping develop the region's business and farming -
an independent federal government regulatory agency responsible for protecting investors, maintaining fair and orderly functioning of the securities markets, and facilitating capital formation -
an ambitious employment and infrastructure program created by President Roosevelt in 1935, during the bleakest years of the Great Depression -
an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability and survivor benefits -
Adwa was conquered, a symbolic place for the Italian army because of the defeat at the Battle of Adwa by the Ethiopian army during the First Italo-Ethiopian War -
began with the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, continued with the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and by the end of 1944 extended to all parts of Czechoslovakia. -
the repatriation and deportation of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans to Mexico from the United States during the Great Depression between 1929 and 1939 -
the scientifically erroneous and immoral theory of “racial improvement” and “planned breeding,” -
a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa -
a work relief program that gave millions of young men employment on environmental projects during the Great Depression -
permitted millions of Mexican men to work legally in the United States on short-term labor contracts -
authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland -
the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain -
formed to help oppose the Japanese invasion of China -
A code talker was a person employed by the military during wartime to use a little-known language as a means of secret communication -
a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to uphold the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast Military Area during World War II -
a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II -
Expansionism is defined as a policy to increase a country's size by expanding its territory, while imperialism can be defined as a policy of extending a country 's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. -
The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries and other crimes in World War II.
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an American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production -
were a group of primarily African American military pilots (fighter and bomber) and airmen who fought in World War II -
The origins of this phrase as a political motto lie in the American Civil War, where Union supporters wanted to emphasize their attachment to God and to boost morale.
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He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s, and he played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II -
He played a major role in the naval history of World War II as Commander in Chief, US Pacific Fleet, and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas, commanding Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II. -
an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961 -
the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II. He received every military combat award for valor available from the U.S. Army, as well as French and Belgian awards for heroism -
an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. At the age of 25, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize for making the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris -
several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead
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was the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and oversaw the U.S. military's policy-making in the Korean War. -
United States Army first lieutenant who was an infantry company platoon leader during World War II and a paratrooper during the Korean War