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The motto that was used by Adams, Franklin and Jefferson, while they were pushing for the Great Seal, to unify all the different states under one flag.
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The Declaration united under the same law all the 13 colonies on the East Coast, and then become the Law all over the US. -
Thanks to the constitution it was created a national government with the legislative, the executive and the judicial branch. -
it spell the first ten rights of American citizens. -
They were political organizations in which a person or a few people have the power and they have enough votes to me in control of the government. For example Tammary Hall and Boss Tweed
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the political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of native or indigenous inhabitants over those of immigrants. They formed the American Party and they were against immigrants that came there.
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As “Democracy in America” revealed, Tocqueville believed that equality was the great political and social idea of his era, and he thought that the United States offered the most advanced example of equality in action. His five principles were Liberty, Egalitarianism, Individualism, Populism, and Laissez-faire.
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They were first built to house the waves of immigrants that arrived in the United States during the 1840s and 1850s and usually were from five to six stories high, with four apartments on each floor.
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It was created to make people go to the West and gave to who requested 160 acres of land.
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period of gross materialism and blatant political corruption in U.S. history during the 1870s that gave rise to important novels of social and political criticism
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Social Darwinists believe in “survival of the fittest”—the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better. Social Darwinism has been used to justify imperialism, racism, eugenics and social inequality at various times over the past century and a half.
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it was a movement arose in the 20th century as two wings of a common philosophy of human worth. Francis Galton, who coined the term eugenics in 1883, perceived it as a moral philosophy to improve humanity by encouraging the ablest and healthiest people to have more children.
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These movement aims to help the society and people with few possibilities, giving them education and food and a roof over their head. It started in 1886 but it continued overtime
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they were journalists, writers, and photographers in the Progressive Era in the United States who claimed to expose corruption and wrongdoing in established institutions, through publications.
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It 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
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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. This created nation attention on the topic of the rights of workers.
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The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of Yukon, in north-western Canada, between 1896 and 1899.
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The reasons for war were many, but there were two immediate ones: America's support the ongoing struggle by Cubans and Filipinos against Spanish rule, and the mysterious explosion of the battleship U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor.
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It was President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy: "speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far".
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It was passed by Congress in 1909 in response to the 1895 Supreme Court case of Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. It allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population.
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It allowed voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators. Prior to its passage, senators were chosen by state legislatures.
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The Panama Canal (Spanish: Canal de Panamá) is an artificial 82 km (51 mi) waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean to lower the distance, cost, and time it took for ships to carry cargo between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.
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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.”
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sunk of the Lusitania, a merchant shipping; invasion of the neutral Belgium; the US was financing the Allies.
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It was a period of rich cross-disciplinary artistic and cultural activity among African Americans. Its best representation was Harlem in NYC.
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It declared the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors illegal, though it did not outlaw the actual consumption of alcohol and started the Probation.
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It granted women the right to vote. It was a game changer for humans rights.
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The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923. 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.
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It aimed to greatly reduce the number of immigrants allowed to enter the United States by setting immigration quotas for each European nation.
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The government formally deported around 82,000 Mexicans, who were targeted in part because of the proximity of the Mexican border, the physical distinctiveness of mestizos, and easily identifiable barrios.
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The American Volunteer Group (AVG) was popularly known as the Flying Tigers because of their aircrafts' distinctive shark's mouth paint scheme. The Flying Tigers did not see combat until December 18, 1941. On July 4, 1942, the AVG was disbanded, and many of the pilots left to return to their original military services.
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It permitted millions of Mexican men to work legally in the United States on short-term labor contracts solving the national agricultural labor shortage during WWII.
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It imposed that every resident with Japanese, German and Italian origins should have been located in interment camps.
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Between 60,000 and 80,000 American and Filipinos prisoners were forced to march for 10 days, and who stopped was killed, jumped, or beheaded.
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It was the project for the first atomic bomb that needed the work of all the most skilled scientists form the western hemisphere, comprehending Einstein.
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Presidential Executive Order 9066 and congressional statutes gave the military authority to exclude citizens of Japanese ancestry from areas deemed critical to national defense and potentially vulnerable to espionage.
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The heads of state of Nazi Germany were processed for crimes against the humanity (in particular for the concentrations camps for the jewish)
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Melkote Ramaswamy, a Hindu American scholar, writes that the presence of the phrase "In God We Trust" on American currency is a reminder that "there is God everywhere, whether we are conscious or not." It replaced "E Pluribus Unum