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Declaration of Independence
The declaration of independence is adopted by the continental congress and was designed for the colonists. It's goal is to rally the troops, win the foreign allies and to announce the creation of a new country. -
“E Pluribus Unum”
"E Pluribus Unum" means one from many in Latin. the phrase offered a strong statement of the American determination to form a single nation from a collection of states. -
U.S. Constitution
The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution. Its purpose was to guarantee certain basic rights for its citizens. -
Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights is the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution. It spells out Americans' rights in relation to their government. It guarantees civil rights and liberties to the individual such as freedom of speech, press, and religion. -
Homestead Act
This act provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land, and distributed millions of acres of western land to individual settlers. -
Eminent Domain
Eminent Domain is the process by which the government may seize private property with proper compensation, but without the owner's consent. -
Homestead Strike
The Homestead Strike was a violent labour dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred in Homestead, Pennsylvania. The striking workers were all fired. -
Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was a mass exodus of prospecting migrants from their hometowns to Canadian Yukon Territory and Alaska after gold was discovered there in 1896. -
Spanish-American War
This was a 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. -
Tenement
The Tenement is a New York State Progressive Era law which outlawed the construction of the dumbbell shaped style tenement housing and set minimum size requirements for tenement housing. -
Causes of WW1
It was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Hungary. In June 1914, the Serbian-nationalist terrorist group called the Black Hand sent groups to assassinate the Archduke. -
Reasons for US entry into WW1
- The Lusitania. In early 1915, Germany introduced a policy unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic.
- The German invasion of Belgium.
- American loans.
- The reintroduction of unrestricted submarine warfare.
- The Zimmerman telegram.
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Characteristics Of The Decade
- The 'New Woman'
- Mass Communication and Consumerism.
- The Jazz Age.
- Prohibition.
- The 'Cultural Civil War'
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Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance 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. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The 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. The leases were the subject of a seminal investigation by Senator Thomas J. Walsh. -
Immigration Act of 1924
This act 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. -
American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
This act of Congress granted citizenship to any Native Americans born within the United States. At the time many were still denied voting rights by individual state or local laws. -
Deportation And Repatriation Of People Of Mexican Heritage
The authorities in California and other states instituted programs to wrongfully remove persons of Mexican ancestry and secure transportation arrangements with railroads, automobiles, ships, and airlines to effectuate the wholesale removal of persons out of the United States to Mexico. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was the name given to the drought-stricken Southern Plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930s. As high winds and choking dust swept the region from Texas to Nebraska, people and livestock were killed and crops failed across the entire region. -
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
This act created the Tennessee Valley Authority to oversee the construction of dams to control flooding, improve navigation, and create cheap electric power in the Tennessee Valley basin. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
The success of the FDIC rests on preventing bank runs and peremptorily closing troubled banks before they infect others in the system. -
Securities & Exchange Commission
The Securities and Exchange Commission oversees securities exchanges, securities brokers and dealers, investment advisors, and mutual funds in an effort to promote fair dealing, the disclosure of important market information, and to prevent fraud. -
Works Progress Administration
The Works Progress Administration created millions of jobs on public works projects. Workers built highways and public buildings, dredged rivers and harbors, and promoted soil and water conservation. Artists were hired to enhance public spaces. -
Social Security Administration
This Act established a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, and aid for dependent mothers and children, persons who are blind, and persons with disabilities. -
Flying Tigers
The Americans ended up fighting for China in WW II. Pilots from the American Volunteer Group sit in front of a P-40 airplane in Kunming, China, on March 27, 1942. The group was notable for its unusual mission: Its members were mercenaries hired by China to fight against Japan. -
Tuskegee Airmen
The Tuskegee Airmen were black servicemen of the U.S. Army Air Forces who trained at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama during World War 2. They constituted the first African American flying unit in the U.S. military. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March Forced 70,000 U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war 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. -
Bracero program
The Bracero Program was an agreement between the United States and Mexico that allowed nearly 4.6 million Mexican citizens to enter the U.S. temporarily to work on farms, railroads, and in factories between 1942 and 1964 -
“In God We Trust”
This is the official motto of the United States and Florida. It was adopted by the U.S. Congress and replacing E pluribus unum.