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The declaration of independence is a writing that the continetial congress wrote severing americas political ties to Great Britian. It gave America Independence. -
It is a document that created our goverment system. It created a legislative, judicial, and executive branch with checks and balances. It also divides power between the goverment and the states/ ppl. -
The bill of rights is the first 10 amendments in the constitution that states peoples rights. Like freedom of speech, press, etc. -
Tocqueville was observing religion and how life was going. He released there are 5 values crucial to americas success. Liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and laissez-faire. -
The policy of protecting the interests of native born or established inhabitats ageinst those of immgrants. -
Susan was one of the most visible leaders of the womans suffrage movement. She fought for womens rights and womens suffrage abd more. -
That any adult citizen or extended citizen who had never borne arms against the U.S goverment could claim 160 acres of serveyed goverment land. -
The process where the goverment may take private property with out the owners consent with the right documents. -
Jane Addams made a program for the poor. The goal was to bring the rich and poor societys together. -
Dole advocated the westernization of Hawaiian government and culture. After the overthrow of the monarchy, he served as the President of the Republic of Hawaii. -
The Carnegie steel company discharged workers. A bloody confritation happend between the workers and the secerity guards and 16 people died and even more injured. -
an event of migration by an estimated 100,000 people to the klondike reagion of north-western canada -
an 1898 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. -
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. -
a political orginazation where a person or small group with authority that has enough votes or is popular enough to have control over political aministration. -
His introduction of the Ford Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As the Ford Motor Company owner, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism", the mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers. -
Following the failure of a French construction team in the 1880s, the United States commenced building a canal across a 50-mile stretch of the Panama isthmus in 1904.The Panama Canal was built to lower the distance, cost, and time it took for ships to carry cargo between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.The canal permits shippers of commercial goods, ranging from automobiles to grain, to save time and money by transporting cargo more quickly between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. -
allows congress to levy a tax on income from any source without apportioning it among the states. -
It allows voters to cast direct votes for U.S senitors. -
the extension or expansion usually by the use of military force of a nation's authority or rule over territories not currently under its control. -
The M.A.I.N, militarism, alliances, imperialism and nationalism. The actual war started because serbian terrorist assasinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. -
he servied as commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. These troops from America bolstered the spirits of European allies and helped defeat the Central Powers in 1918. Congress promoted Pershing to the rank of “General of the Armies of the United States” in 1919. -
The manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liqors. -
Garvey was known as the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Formed in Jamaica in July 1914, the UNIA aimed to achieve Black nationalism through the celebration of African history and culture. -
the Harlem Renaissance instilled in African Americans across the country a new spirit of self-determination and pride, a new social consciousness, and a new commitment to political activism, all of which would provide a foundation for the Civil Rights Movement -
Granted women the right to vote -
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. -
The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. -
This act granted citizenship to all native americans born in the US. -
he was a american aviator, one of the best-known figures in aeronautical history, remembered for the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York City to Paris. -
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 -
the us 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. -
it insures deposits, examines and supervises financial institutions for safety and soundness and consumer protection, Works to make large and complex financial institutions resolvable, and. Manages receiverships. -
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. -
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an ambitious employment and infrastructure program created by President Roosevelt in 1935, during the bleakest years of the Great Depression. -
it was made to to provide for the material needs of individuals and families to protect aged and disabled persons against the expenses of illnesses that may otherwise use up their savings to keep families together -
The group was notable for its unusual mission: Its members were mercenaries hired by China to fight against Japan. -
The first international war crimes tribunal in history revealed the true extent of German atrocities and held some of the most prominent Nazis accountable for their crimes. -
He signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent Army troops to enforce federal court orders which integrated schools in Little Rock, Arkansas. His largest program was the Interstate Highway System. He promoted the establishment of strong science education via the National Defense Education Act.