EOC Review

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    Political Machines

    Political Machine is a party organization. It recruits members by the use of money and political jobs.
  • Declaration Of Independence

    Declaration Of Independence

    The Declaration of Independence is to give everyone equal rights and freedom. It also gave the United States freedom from Britain. Some of the important people are Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston.
  • E Pluribus Unum

    E Pluribus Unum

    This means One from many. It was the first motto proposed to the Great Seal of the United States by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson.
  • U.S. Constitution

    U.S. Constitution

    The U.S. Constitution gives the citizens of the United States their freedom and their basic rights.
  • The Bill of Rights

    The Bill of Rights

    The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments that are in the U.S. Constitution. The Bill of Rights was made to protect the basic rights of U.S Citizens.
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    Nativism

    Nativism is the protection of the native or indigenous. It also protects the support of immigration-restriction measures.
  • Alex de Tocqueville and his Five Principles : Liberty, Egalitarianism, Individualism, Populism, and Laissez-faire.

    Alex de Tocqueville and his Five Principles : Liberty, Egalitarianism, Individualism, Populism, and Laissez-faire.

    He wrote these for the help of Americas success. It also helped women and children be more independent.
  • Tenement

    Tenement

    These were rooms forming a separate residence within a house/piece of land held by an owner.
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

    The Homestead act was when the government gave land to people who agreed to take care of it and to farm it. It gave people land and more farming happened.
  • Settlement House Movement

    Settlement House Movement

    This was to bring the poor and the rich together. The people that started this were Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
  • Social Darwinism

    Social Darwinism

    The theory that all people of all races and human groups are subject to the same laws of natural selection. The idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better.
  • Eugenics

    Eugenics

    This was the scientifically erroneous and immoral theory of “racial improvement” and “planned breeding”.
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    Tin Pan Alley

    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. Tin Pan Alley was the most popular music publishing center in the world.
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    Homestead Strike 1892

    The Homestead Strike was an industrial lockout and strike. It was also a battle between strikers and private security agents.
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    Klondike Gold Rush

    This was a migration of about 100,000 prospectors. They were going to the Klondike region of Yukon in north-western Canada.
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    Spanish-American War

    This was a period of armed conflict between Spain and the US after the explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba. It lead to the United States' intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
  • Muckraker

    Muckraker

    They were journalists, writers, and photographers who exposed corruption and wrongdoings. This was going on during the Progressive Era
  • Big Stick Policy

    Big Stick Policy

    This policy became known as Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. This was created so that countries could negotiate on things but if it got that serious then the military would get involved in" The Big Stick" would come into play.
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    Panama Canal

    It was built to decrease the distance, cost, and time it took to carry cargo between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. It made getting cargo from one place to another much faster than putting it on a ship and going all the way around.
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    the 16th Amendment allows the federal government to collect an income tax from all Americans. They can collect taxes without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population
  • 17th Amendments

    17th Amendments

    The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State.
  • Establishment of the National Park System

    Establishment of the National Park System

    This manages all of the national parks. The four founders are Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Stephen Mather, and Horace M. Albright.
  • Reason for the US entering WWI

    Reason for the US entering WWI

    The one reason that the US entered WWI the Lusitania.
    The German invasion of Belgium. The reintroduction of unrestricted submarine warfare and The Zimmerman telegram.
  • 18th Amendments

    18th Amendments

    The 18th amendment was put in place to prohibit the selling of alcohol. It made selling alcohol illegal.
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    This gave women the right to vote. There were now equal voting rights. Now no one could be stopped of not voting based on their gender/sex.
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    Harlem Renaissance

    This was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics, and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City.
    This was also known as the New Nefro Movement.
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    Teapot Dome Scandal

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

    Immigration Act of 1924

    This was what limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States.
  • American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924

    American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924

    This 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.
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    Deportation of people of Mexican heritage during Great Depression

    The government formally deported around 82,000 Mexicans. The Mexican Repatriation was the repatriation and deportation of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans to Mexico from the United States during the Great Depression.
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    Flying Tigers

    The First American Volunteer Group of the Republic of China Air Force. It was composed of pilots from the United States Army Air Corps, Navy, and Marine Corps, and was commanded by Claire Lee Chennault
  • Bracero program

    Bracero program

    This was when the United States permitted millions of Mexican men to work legally in the United States on short-term labor contracts.
  • Executive Order 9066

    Executive Order 9066

    Franklin Roosevelt 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

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

    Manhattan Project

    This was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada.
  • Korematsu v. U.S.

    Korematsu v. U.S.

    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. The final decision, that the detention was a “military necessity” not based on race.
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    Nuremberg Trials

    Held by the Allies against representatives of defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries and other crimes in World War II.
  • In God We Trust

    In God We Trust

    This replaced E pluribus unum. It is the official moto of the United States and of Florida.