EOC Review

  • deceleration of Independence

    it was the day that the United States was declared independent from great Britain
  • "E Pluribus Unum"

    "E Pluribus Unum"

    it means one from many. it was put on coins and was the first motto on the first great seal in the US
  • U.S. constitution

    It is the law of the land and it superseded the articles of confederation also allowed for checks and balences
  • Bill of Rights

    Bill of Rights

    first 10 amendments added to the constitution
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    social Darwinism

    a set of ideas that natural section was a way to justify political raciest and economical ideas in the 1800s
  • Alexis de Tocqueville and his Five Principles

    Alexis de Tocqueville and his Five Principles

    he wanted liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and laissez-faire for the common people to have a say in politics
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    tenement

    main form of housing for working class people because of the new deal
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

    that any adult citizen was able to claim 160 acres of land but were needed to "improve" the land
  • "In God We Trust"

    "In God We Trust"

    it was a phrase that was introduced by Charles E. Bennett. it was meant as people knowing god is with them always and something people can rally around. the first coin to have it was the 2 cent coin in 1864 but wasn't printed on the dollar until 1957
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    political machines

    the bribing of people by using money and jobs to have control over types of government 18th century to the 19th centurhy
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    settlement house movement

    the goal was to bring the rich and the poor physically and socially closer together
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    eugenics

    selective breeding of people to get rid of undesirable traits
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    tin pan alley

    was a location that many song witters and singers lived in and was the the big music center of the work from 1885 to the 1920s
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    Muckrakers

    they showed political strife and were bringing attention to the economic corruption and the powers of big businesses
  • homestead strike 1892

    violent labor dispute with steel workers
  • Klondike Gold Rush

    people moving to Klondike to find gold
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    spanish american war

    started when we had a battleship sunk in Havana harbor of the USS Maine. with this we declared war on them. it ended with the treaty of Paris and with us gaining much territory form Spain
  • big stick policy

    Teddy Roosevelt's idea that you can speak softly but you also have a big and powerful military behind you to back you up
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    Harlem renaissance

    a big boom in African american culture in music, art, writing in the 1910s to the mid 1930s
  • 16th amendment

    made congress able to impose federal income tax
  • 17th amendment

    allows voters to vote directly on US senators
  • panama canal

    it was created to basically make an artificial water way the would shorten the distance instead of traveling around the cape horn in south america
  • establishment of the National Park System

    allowed the government to keep track and manage the national parks
  • reason for us entry in WW1

    Germany submarine attacks on passenger and merchant ships
  • 18th amendment

    stopped the making, and transporting of alcohol
  • Nativism

    Nativism

    the belief the the people born there are more important and we protect them from immigrants. it started in the 1790s and died down but then rose up in the 1920s because of all the immigrants seeking jobs after WW1
  • 19th amendment

    gave women the right to vote
  • teapot dome scandal

    Albert bacon fall leased Navy oil to oil companies without bidding on them and went under investigation
  • Immigration Act of 1924

    it limited the amount of immigrants that were allowed into the united states with the use of visas and their origins
  • American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924

    allowed Native Americans if born in the U.S. to vote but was governed by state law
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    Deportation of people of Mexican heritage during Great Depression

    it was when the us deported 1.8 million Mexicans out of the U.S. in an effort to make room for jobs for white people
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    Flying Tigers

    it was a group of pilots that were fighting the Japanese in Burma to defend china and dropped off supplies along with defending the capitol of china
  • Bracero program

    allowed millions of Mexicans to come back to the U.S. under work contracts
  • Bataan Death March

    a 66 mile march that the Japanese military forced the 72,000 prisoners of war to go on
  • Executive Order 9066

    Teddy Roosevelt said that anyone a threat to national security was to go to relocation centers further inland. mainly Japanese
  • Manhattan Project

    code name for the making and development of a nuclear bomb and weapons
  • Korematsu v. U.S.

    the moving of people with Japanese ethnicity was ruled a strategic move and did not show racial discrimination
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    Nuremberg Trials

    series of 13 trials that tried the people accused of Nazi ties