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The colonial representatives voted to adopt the Declaration of Independence and us Americans have been celebrating it as the official birthday of the United States ever since. -
The fundamental law of the U.S. federal system of government and a landmark document of the Western world. -
The seal and press remained with Charles Thomson as secretary of the Continental Congress until he delivered them on July 23, 1789, to Washington as president under the Constitution. -
On October 2, 1789, President Washington sent copies of the 12 amendments adopted by Congress to the states. Now by December 15, 1791, three-fourths of the states had ratified 10 of these, now known as the “Bill of Rights.” -
he 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. -
Tocqueville´s works shaped 19th-century discussions of liberalism and equality, and were rediscovered in the 20th century as sociologists debated the cause and curse of tyranny. Included values such as: Liberty, Egalitarianism, Individualism, Populism, and Laissez-faire. -
President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act -
a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state. -
Nativism arose out of the tensions between native-born Americans and newly-arrived immigrants and over all competition over jobs -
The term eugenics was coined by British explorer and natural scientist Francis Galton, who, influenced by Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, advocated a system that would allow “the more suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable -
Settlement houses were organizations that provided support services to the urban poor and European immigrants, often including education, healthcare, childcare, and employment resources. -
A violent labour dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred in 1892 in Homestead, Pennsylvania -
An event of migration by an estimated 100,000 people prospecting to the Klondike region of north-western Canada in the Yukon region between 1896 and 1899. And It's also called the Yukon Gold Rush. -
America's support the ongoing struggle by Cubans and Filipinos against Spanish rule. -
one of the first laws to ban the construction of dark, poorly ventilated tenement buildings in the state of New York. This Progressive Era law required new buildings to have outward-facing windows, indoor bathrooms, proper ventilation, and fire safeguard -
diplomats act on the theory that rather than discussion and debate, the most effective form of diplomacy is careful negotiation and decisive action to demonstrate to other parties that military action can be used in the future. -
any of a group of American writers identified with pre-World War I reform and expose writing. -
established Congress's right to impose a Federal income tax -
allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators. Prior to its passage, senators were chosen by state legislatures -
to move ships from east to west quickly. If they did that, they would control power because they would control the oceans. The Canal was a geopolitical strategy to make the United States the most powerful nation on earth. Also, the economic impact was massive -
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 Lusitania, The German invasion of Belgium, American loans, The reintroduction of unrestricted submarine warfare, The Zimmerman telegram. -
the development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a Black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century and the subsequent social and artistic explosion that resulted. This period is considered a golden age in African American culture, manifesting in literature, music, stage performance and art. -
Prohibition of Liquor -
legally guarantees American women the right to vote -
he scandal involved ornery oil tycoons, poker-playing politicians, illegal liquor sales, a murder-suicide, a womanizing president and a bagful of bribery cash delivered on the sly. In the end, the scandal would empower the Senate to conduct rigorous investigations into government corruption -
refers to the physical location of the New York City-centered music. Tin Pan Alley was the popular music publishing center of the world -
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. -
granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. The right to vote. -
The U.S. Deported a Million of Its Own Citizens to Mexico During the Great Depression. Up to 1.8 million people of Mexican descent most of them American-born were rounded up in informal raids and deported in an effort to reserve jobs for white people. -
the first major land battle for the Americans in World War II and one of the most-devastating military defeats in American history. -
An executive order called the Mexican Farm Labor Program established. 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. -
authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland. -
a group of Americans ended up fighting for China in WW II, the group was notable for its unusual mission. Its members were mercenaries hired by China to fight against Japan. -
was the code name for the American-led effort to develop a functional atomic weapon during World War II. -
conviction of Fred Korematsu a son of Japanese immigrants who was born in Oakland California for having violated an exclusion order requiring him to submit to forced relocation during World War ll. -
all of humanity would be guarded by an international legal shield and that even a Head of State would be held criminally responsible and punished for aggression and Crimes Against Humanity -
The pledge of allegiance, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a law officially declaring “In God We Trust” to be the nation's official motto.