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It is a document that says that America is a free country from Britain. It was a unanimous decision between all 13 colonies to become independent. -
The Latin phrase means "one from many". When America declared independence from Britain, they were 13 different colonies, but then they became one United States. a single nation from a collection of states. It was presented August 20th, 1776 -
A document that serves as the fundamental law of the country. James Madison wrote and formed the model for it. -
the political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of native or indigenous inhabitants over those of immigrants, including the support of immigration-restriction measures. It was a dislike toward immigrants. It was a political factor in the 1790's and in the 1830's-1850's -
The first ten amendments in the constitution. It was ratified on December 15th, 1791, and it guarantees the right to free speech and religion. -
The 5 principles were sayings that people living in America should have the freedom to believe what they want, and to have a limited government interference. -
Any adult citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. in other words, the government provided land to anyone who agreed to farm it. -
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The idea is that some people are more powerful in society because they are innately better. Also survival of the fittest in political/economic struggle. -
The immoral theory of "racial improvement" and "planned breeding". The goal was to eliminate undesirable genetic traits in the human race through selective breeding. -
A location in New York City contained music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the U.S in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. -
a group of enterprising settlement house movement leaders sought to achieve change by bridging the gaps between social classes. Its goal was to bring the rich and poor of society together in both physical proximity and social interconnectedness. -
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a violent strike at the Homestead Works in Pittsburg over a lockout following a decision to cut their wages by 20%, the strike ended with the destruction of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steelworkers. -
The family of Skookum Jim found gold near the Klondike River in Canada's Yukon territory. Their discovery sparked a gold rush from people in the Yukon Territory and Alaska. -
The main causes of the war were Cuba's struggle for independence and the sinking of the U.S.S Maine. The impact of the war was that the U.S won and produced a peace treaty that granted Cuba independence, and the U.S took control of Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico. -
a party organization that lures its members with money and political jobs. a party that recruits voter loyalty using tangible items -
a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments. Most back in the day were too cramped, had bad plumbing, and poor ventilation. April 12th, 1901 New York passed the tenement house act of 1901. -
Theodore Roosevelt made it. It's the idea of negotiating peacefully but also having strength when things can go wrong. The idea of international police power. -
Any group of pre-WWI reform and expose literature. they provided detailed and accurate journalism accounts of political and economic corruption and social hardships caused by the power of big businesses in a rapidly industrializing the United States. -
The U.S built the Panama Canal to make boat transportation easier from east to west. It reduced travel time between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It decreased transportation costs. -
It allows Congress to levy a tax on income from any source without apportioning it among the states and without regard to the census. -
that each state will only have 2 senators -
It was created by Ulysses S. Grant. He signed the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act into law. It protected more than 2 million acres of land. -
Germany sent torpedos to the U.S ship Lusitania. Germany's invasion of Belgium, and "Atrocity Propaganda" painted the Germans as barbaric. In the Zimmerman telegram, Germany proposed a secret alliance with Mexico, if the U.S were to enter the war. -
Harlem is a section in Manhatten, where African Americans expressed themselves and celebrated their African heritage, and rejected long-standing, degrading stereotypes. It began around 1918 and continued to 1937. -
It granted women the right to vote. It was passed on June 4th, 1919, and was ratified on August 18th, 1920. -
outlawed the sale of alcohol, prohibition. -
Albert Fall accepted large sums of money and gifts from private oil companies, in exchange Fall allowed the companies to control government oil reserves in Elk Hill, California, and Teapot Dome, Wyoming. -
The law limited the number of immigrants allowed in the U.S. It was designed to keep wages and living standards high for both the existing population and the legal immigrants. -
It granted Native Americans who were born in the U.S citizenship and the right to vote. -
During the Great Depression jobs were limited and Mexican immigrants were taking them, so we deported them. America couldn't afford to have them. The government deported 82,000 from 1929 to 1935. -
Mercenaries were hired by China to fight against Japan. They were called the American Volunteer Group. -
It authorized the evacuation of all people deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further island. -
It permitted millions of Mexican men to work legally in the U, S on short-term labor contracts. The program guaranteed minimum wage, housing, and health care, but most of them were given low wages and poor working conditions, in the end, the program failed in 1964 -
A research project to produce the atomic bomb during WWII. It was run by the U.S army. The U.S, Great Britain, and Canada were involved in the making of it. -
Fred Komatsu was the son of an immigrant, he was born in California, but was convicted for violating the exclusion requiring him to be forced into relocation during WWII -
The first international war-crime trial. It revealed the true extent of German atrocities and held the nazis to their crimes. -
It was first created in 1864, it was not printed on paper until 1957. Dwight Eisenhower signed a law that made "In God We Trust" the nation's motto. -
The forced march of 70,000 U.S and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese in the Philippines