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  • declaration of independence

    declaration of independence

    securing the individual rights of citizens and declaring independence from other countries
  • E Pluribus Unum

    E Pluribus Unum

    latin for "Out of many, one" a traditional motto of the United States
  • US constituion

    US constituion

    United States established America's national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens.
  • bill of rights

    bill of rights

    the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution
  • Alexis de Tocqueville

    Alexis de Tocqueville

    Describe how the American values identified by Alexis de Tocqueville are different and unique from those of other nations.
  • homestead act

    homestead act

    an adult citizen/intended citizen, who hasn't borne arms against the U.S. government, could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land
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    political machines

    political machine is a political organization where a person or small group with a bit of authority gets enough votes or is popular enough to have control over political administration or any type of government in a city, county, or state.
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    Nativism

    Nativism is the political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of native or indigenous, back lash against immigrants
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    settlement house movement

    The settlement movement is a social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in England and the United States. the goal was to bring rich and poor together physically and socially
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    social darwinism

    the theory that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as charles darwin perceived in plants and animals in nature.
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    tin pin alley

    'Tin Pan Alley' is the physical location in New York City where music publishers and songwriters are centered
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    Muckraker

    muckrakers were journalists, writers, and photographers in the Progressive Era in the United States who exposed corruption and wrongdoing in established institution to the public
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    homestead strike

    the carnegie steel company in homestead, pennsylvania discharged workers from iron and steel association- violent confrontation ensued between the workers and the hired pinkerton security guards, killing 16 people and many with injuries.
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    klondike gold rush

    Skookum Jim and his family found gold near the Klondike River in Canada's Yukon Territory-- The discovery caused a frantic gold rushes, miners immediately flocked to the river.
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    spanish american war

    conflict between Spain and the United States. war began after the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
  • tenement

    tenement

    apartments, separate housing owned by one person with multiple families paying to live there
  • big stick policy

    big stick policy

    President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy: "speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far".-- example the entire United States Navy went to multiple countries to demonstrate military prominence without threatening violence.
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    panama canal

    the panama canal was built to lower the distance, cost, and time it took for ships to carry cargo between the atlantic and the pacific oceans.-- reduced travel time
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    eugenics

    planned/selective breeding, tried to make the perfect people for society-- no mental disorders or disabilities
  • 16th amendment

    16th amendment

    the congress has power to give and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived.
  • 17th amendment

    17th amendment

    allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators
  • National park service/system

    National park service/system

    an agency of the US federal government that manages all national parks, most national monuments, and other natural, historical, and recreational properties
  • us entered ww1

    us entered ww1

    Germany caused unrestricted submarine warfare which had resulted the sinking of ships of America. the US also got involved in the war was because of nationalism, imperialism, militarism, and forming allies.
  • 18th amendment

    18th amendment

    outlawed the production, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages
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    harlem renaissance

    the harlem renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of african american music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship in harlem, manhattan, new york city and others
  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment

    womens right to vote
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    teapot dome scandal

    the teapot dome scandal was a bribery scandal-- secretary of the interior albert bacon fall had leased navy petroleum reserves at teapot dome in wyoming, as well as two locations in california, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding
  • immigration act of 1924

    immigration act of 1924

    limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota
  • american indian citizenship

    american indian citizenship

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

    during the great depression jobs dried up, the land dried up (dust bowl) and those farmers and workers headed west looking for work, which put them in competition with mexicans and mexican americans already in the southwest-- the deportations got rid of about 2 million mexicans and mexican americans.
  • Flying Tigers

    Flying Tigers

    mercenaries hired by China to fight against Japan, between 1941 and 1942 -- nicknamed flying tigers because of their plane design
  • Executive Order 9066

    Executive Order 9066

    authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland.
  • Bataan Death March

    Bataan Death March

    70,000 US and Filipino ill and starved prisoners from ww2 captured by the japanese in the philippines were force marched from the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, to a prison camp 63 mi away
  • bracero program

    bracero program

    permitted millions of Mexican men to work legally in the United States on short-term labor contracts.
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    Manhattan Project

    the program based in the United States which tried to make the first nuclear weapon
  • Korematsu v. U.S.

    Korematsu v. U.S.

    decision by supreme court that the detention was a “military necessity” not based on race.
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    nuremberg trials

    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 2.
  • in god we trust

    in god we trust

    "In God We Trust" is the official motto of the United States, adopted by the U.S. Congress in 1956, replacing E pluribus unum.-- meaning "there is God everywhere, whether we are conscious or not."