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“E Paribus Unum”
Latin word that means one form many, it was a strong statement of the american determination to form a single nation from a collection of states. -
Declaration of Independence
announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. -
U.S. Constitution
defines the principal organs of government and their jurisdictions and the basic rights of citizens. -
Bill of Rights
Is the first 10 amendments to the constitution, gave Americans their rights in the relation of the government. -
Political Machines
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. -
Homestead Act
IT was inured during the civil war, and it provided 160 acres to any adult citizen who never borne arms against the US -
Nativism
the practice of supporting the wants and needs of residents of a given area over the interests of immigrants -
Social Darwinism
the 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. -
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 -
Settlement House Movement
a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in England and the United States. -
Homestead Strike 1892
a violent labor dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred in 1892 in Homestead, Pennsylvania. -
Spanish-American War
It was a conflict between the United States and Spain which ended the Spain's role as a colonial power in the New World. -
Tenement
a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city. -
Big Stick Policy
The idea is negotiating peacefully but also having strength in case things go wrong. Simultaneously threatening with the "big stick", or the military, ties in heavily with the idea of Realpolitik, which implies a pursuit of political power that resembles Machiavellian ideals -
Muckraker
A group of american writers who identifies with pre-world war 1 reform and expose writing. They were also know as Journalist who expose the corruption on political and economic social hardship. -
16th Amendments
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. -
17th Amendments
allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators. -
Panama Canal
It was constructed waterway that connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans across the Isthmus of Panama -
Reasons for US entry into WW1
Wilson cited Germany's violation of its pledge to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, as well as its attempts to entice Mexico into an alliance against the United States, as his reasons for declaring war. -
Harlem Renaissance
an artistic flowering of the “New Negro” movement as its participants celebrated their African heritage and embraced self-expression, rejecting long-standing—and often degrading—stereotypes. -
18th Amendments
prohibited “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors” but not the consumption, private possession, or production for one's own consumption. -
19th Amendments
The 19th amendment gave women the rights to vote. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
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
limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. -
American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. -
Deportation of people of Mexican heritage during 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. -
Flying Tigers
mercenaries hired by China to fight against Japan. -
Executive Order 9066
authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland. -
Bracero program
permitted millions of Mexican men to work legally in the United States on short-term labor contracts. -
Bataan Death March
a torturous march of more than 65 miles, in which thousands of troops died due to starvation, dehydration, and gratuitous violence. -
Manhattan Project
a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. -
. Korematsu v. U.S.
the Supreme Court held that the wartime internment of American citizens of Japanese descent was constitutional. -
Nuremberg Trials
The trials uncovered the German leadership that supported the Nazi dictatorship. -
“In God We Trust
An american motto, that was adopted by the U.s Congress in 1956 which was initial the 1776 designed of the Great seal of the United states. -
Klondike Gold Rush
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.