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The machines offered services to voters and businesses in exchange for political or financial support. Political machines gained control of local government in major US cities. At the base there were local precinct workers who tried to gain voters' support on a city block and reported to a ward boss. -
1776 moto created - Latin for “Out of many, one” IT offered a strong statement of the American determination -
July 4, 1776 - This document was signed on July 4th of 1776 in order to announce the United States independence from Britain. This document helped to protect the rights of the people. -
September 17, 1787 - This document was signed on September 17th of 1787 to ensure all people have basic rights. -
December 15, 1791 - Signed on October 2, 1789, the Bill of rights was written to ratify the first ten amendments of the constitution. This was written to further protect the basic rights of U.S. citizens. -
1795 used on coinage - Latin for “Out of many, one” IT offered a strong statement of the American determination -
July 29, 1805-April 16, 1859 - French aristocrat, diplomat, political scientist, and historian. (liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and laissez-faire) -
1830s-1850s - Protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants -
Passed on May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act accelerated the settlement of the western territory by granting adult heads of families 160 acres of surveyed public land for a minimal filing fee and five years of continuous residence on that land. -
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. -
The term 'Tin Pan Alley' refers to 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. -
In 1892, the Carnegie Steel Company in Homestead, Pennsylvania discharged workers from the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers Union. A bloody confrontation ensued between the workers and the hired Pinkerton security guards, ultimately killing 16 people and causing many injuries -
Skookum Jim and his family found gold near the Klondike River in Canada's Yukon Territory. Their discovery sparked one of the most frantic gold rushes in history. Nearby miners immediately flocked to the Klondike to stake the rest of the good claims. Almost a year later, news ignited the outside world. -
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The Spanish-American War was an 1898 conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America -
The muckrakers were reform-minded journalists, writers, and photographers in the Progressive Era in the United States -
these narrow, low-rise apartment buildings–many of them concentrated in the city's Lower East Side neighborhood–were all too often cramped, poorly lit and lacked indoor plumbing and proper ventilation. -
The Panama Canal is a constructed waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans across the Isthmus of Panama. It is owned and administered by Panama, and it is 40 miles long from shoreline to shoreline. Ships can cross going in either direction, and it takes about 10 hours to get from one side to the other.the PCE has increased cargo traffic flow from the West Coast to the East Coast, decreasing transportation costs and increasing transit time for ths us -
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. Was passed in 1909 -
May 13, 1912, and ratified on April 8, 1913 allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators. Prior to its passage, senators were chosen by state legislatures. -
Its goal was to bring the rich and the poor of society together in both physical proximity and social interconnectedness. -
It was established in 1916 by an act of the U.S. Congress that was signed into law by U.S. Pres. Woodrow Wilson. The law stipulated that the new service was to “conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and… leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.” -
The Zimmerman telegram, The reintroduction of unrestricted submarine warfare, American loans, The German invasion of Belgium, The Lusitania -
prohibited “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquours” but not the consumption, private possession, or production for one's own consumption. -
Big stick ideology, big stick diplomacy, or big stick policy refers to President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy: "speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far". -
granted women the right to vote. -
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923. -
The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census. -
Indian Citizenship Act. On June 2, 1924, Congress enacted the Indian Citizenship Act, which granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. The right to vote, however, was governed by state law; until 1957, some states barred Native Americans from voting. -
The government formally deported around 82,000 Mexicans from 1929 to 1935. This constituted a significant portion of the Mexican population in the US. By one estimate, one-fifth of Mexicans in California were repatriated by 1932, and one-third of all Mexicans in the US between 1931 and 1934. -
The American eugenics movement embraced negative eugenics, with the goal to eliminate undesirable genetic traits in the human race through selective breeding -
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The Harlem Renaissance was a period of rich cross-disciplinary artistic and cultural activity among African Americans between the end of World War -
An executive order called the Mexican Farm Labor Program established the Bracero Program in 1942. This series of diplomatic accords between Mexico and the United States permitted millions of Mexican men to work legally in the United States on short-term labor contracts -
Issued by President Franklin Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, this order authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland. -
The Manhattan Project was the code name for the American-led effort to develop a functional atomic weapon during World War II. -
Forced march of 70,000 U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war (World War II) captured by the Japanese in the Philippines. From the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, the starving and ill-treated prisoners were force-marched 63 mi to a prison camp. -
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The group was notable for its unusual mission: Its members were mercenaries hired by China to fight against Japan. Eighty years ago this week, a small group of American aviators fought in their first battle in World War II. Their mission was unusual: They were mercenaries hired by China to fight against Japan. -
Korematsu asked the Supreme Court of the United States to hear his case. On December 18, 1944, a divided Supreme Court ruled, in a 6-3 decision, that the detention was a “military necessity” not based on race. -
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The trials uncovered the German leadership that supported the Nazi dictatorship. Of the 177 defendants, 24 were sentenced to death, 20 to lifelong imprisonment, and 98 other prison sentences. Twenty five defendants were found not guilty. Many of the prisoners were released early in the 1950s as a result of pardons. -
On July 30, 1956 two years after pushing to have the phrase “under God” inserted into the pledge of allegiance, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a law officially declaring “In God We Trust” to be the nation's official motto.