• The United States Declaration of Independence

    United States Declaration of Independence this made the United States there own country separating for England
  • E Pluribus Unum

    E Pluribus Unum is a traditional motto of the United States
  • United States Constitution (Created)

    United States Constitution is the base of with the United States was founded on
  • United States Constitution (Ratified)

    United States Constitution is the base of with the United States was founded on
  • 17th Amendments

    two Senators out of each state
  • Bill of Rights

    United States Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments that state your induvial rights
  • Alex de Tocqueville and his Five Principles

    liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and laissez-faire
  • Tenement

    narrow low rise apartment buildings that are lived in
  • Political Machines

    party organization that recruits its members by the use of tangible incentives
  • Homestead Act

    acquire ownership of government land or the public domain
  • Nativism

    support of immigration-restriction measures
  • Social Darwinism

    natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology, economics and politics
  • Tin Pan Alley

    New York City-centered music publishers and songwriters
  • Muckraker

    reform-minded journalists
  • Homestead Strike 1892

    a battle between strikers and private security agents
  • Klondike Gold Rush

    migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region for gold
  • Spanish-American War (start)

    armed conflict between Spain and the United States. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine
  • Spanish-American War (end)

    armed conflict between Spain and the United States. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine
  • Big Stick Policy

    President Theodore Roosevelt's way of saying "speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far"
  • 16th Amendments

    allows Congress to levy an income tax
  • Panama Cana

    artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean is was built for trade
  • 18th Amendments

    prohibiting intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes
  • establishment of the National Park System

    federal government that manages all national parks, most national monuments
  • Reasons for US entry into WW1

    MONEY, The Zimmerman telegram, MONEY, unrestricted submarine warfare, and MONEY
  • Settlement House Movement

    bring the rich and the poor of society together in both physical proximity and social interconnectedness
  • Harlem Renaissance

    intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics
  • 19th Amendments

    no denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex
  • Teapot Dome Scandal

    bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G.
  • Immigration Act of 1924

    allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota
  • American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924

    granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. The right to vote
  • Deportation of people of Mexican heritage during Great Depression

    deportation of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans to Mexico from the United States
  • eugenics

    embraced negative eugenics, with the goal to eliminate undesirable genetic traits in the human race through selective breeding
  • Flying Tigers

    First American Volunteer Group of the Republic of China Air Force they helped in China to fight off the Japanese
  • Bracero program

    permitted millions of Mexican men to work legally in the United States
  • Executive Order 9066

    evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security
  • Bataan Death March

    forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war, the prisoners being forced to march despite many dying on the journey
  • Manhattan Project

    development during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons
  • Korematsu v. U.S.

    uphold the exclusion of Japanese Americans
  • Nuremberg Trials (start)

    trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany
  • Nuremberg Trials (end)

    trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany
  • In God We Trust

    In God We Trust is a traditional motto of the United States as well as the official motto replacing E pluribus unum