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a policy to increase a country's size by expanding its territory, while imperialism can be defined as a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. -
The Declaration of Independence was the first formal statement by a nation's people asserting their right to choose their own government. -
A latin phrase meaning "One from many," the phrase offered a strong statement of the American determination to form a single nation from a collection of states. -
The Constitution of the United States is a document that serves as the fundamental law of the country. -
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—like freedom of speech, press, and religion. -
Anthony served as an American Anti-Slavery Society agent, arranging meetings, making speeches, putting up posters, and distributing leaflets. When Susan B. Anthony encountered hostile mobs, and armed threats, and had things thrown at her, she did not quit. -
was a US Navy flag officer, geostrategist, and historian. -
the first president of the Republic of Hawaii (1894–1900), and the first governor of the Territory of Hawaii (1900–03) after it was annexed by the United States -
Jane Addams was the second woman to receive the Peace Prize. She founded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919 and worked for many years to get the great powers to disarm and conclude peace agreements. -
He is most famous for serving as commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. -
the most important black protest leader in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. -
The Homestead Act, enacted during the Civil War in 1862, provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. -
An American journalist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She later was active in promoting justice for African Americans -
Henry Ford was an American automobile manufacturer who created the Model T in 1908 and went on to develop the assembly line mode of production, which revolutionized the automotive industry. As a result, Ford sold millions of cars and became a world-famous business leader. -
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. -
Eminent domain is the power of state or federal governments to take private property for public use. Land and homes could be taken to build highways and public parks. -
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. was an American writer, muckraker, political activist, and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for Governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. He wrote the book "The Jungle" -
MacArthur prepares to abandon his troops to the Japanese -
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 -
Alvin Cullum York, also known as Sergeant York, was one of the most decorated United States Army soldiers of World War I. He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine-gun nest, gathering 35 machine guns, killing at least 25 enemy soldiers, and capturing 132 prisoners. -
A muckraker was any of a group of American writers identified with pre-World War I reform and exposé writing -
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. -
Tensions between steelworkers and management were the immediate causes of the Homestead Strike of 1892 in southwestern Pennsylvania, but this dramatic and violent labor protest was more the product of industrialization, unionization, and changing ideas of property and employee rights during the Gilded Age. -
The Klondike Gold Rush is credited for helping the United States out of a depression. Still, it had a horrific impact on the local environment, causing massive soil erosion, water contamination, deforestation, and loss of native wildlife, among other things. The gold rush also severely impacted the Native people -
America's support the ongoing struggle by Cubans and Filipinos against Spanish rule, and the mysterious explosion of the battleship U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor -
A political machine (sometimes called just machine in politics) is a political organization in which a person or small group with authority that has enough votes or is popular enough to have control over political administration or any type of government in a city, county, or state. -
a New York State Progressive Era law that outlawed the construction of the dumbbell-shaped style tenement housing and set minimum size requirements for tenement housing. It also mandated the installation of lighting, better ventilation, and indoor bathrooms. -
Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. At the age of 25, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize for making the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris on -
gave people the right to vote for their senators instead of the state legislature -
The Congress shall have the 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." -
the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary -
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. -
It links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and provides a new route for international trade and military transport. -
Americans entered the war in 1917 by declaring war on Germany. This was due to the attack on Lusitania, the unrestricted submarine warfare on American ships heading to Britain, and Germany encouraging Mexico to attack the USA. A British passenger ship was sunk by a German U-Boat -
The National Park Service is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, most national monuments, and other natural, historical, and recreational properties with various title designations. -
became the only surviving African American to receive the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions during the war. -
a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants. -
Its goal was to bring the rich and the poor of society together in both physical proximity and social interconnectedness. -
The Harlem Renaissance was a period of rich cross-disciplinary artistic and cultural activity among African Americans between the end of World War I and the onset of the Great Depression and leading up to World War II. -
Eighteenth Amendment prohibited “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors” but not the consumption, private possession, or production for one's own consumption. -
granted women the right to vote. -
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding -
granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. -
limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota -
the only case in Supreme Court history in which the Court, using a strict test for possible racial discrimination, upheld a restriction on civil liberties. -
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. -
The Mexican Repatriation was the repatriation and deportation of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans to Mexico from the United States during the Great Depression -
The new agency was asked to tackle important problems facing the valley, such as flooding, providing electricity to homes and businesses, and replanting forests -
a work relief program that gave millions of young men employment on environmental projects during the Great Depression. -
an ambitious employment and infrastructure program created by President Roosevelt -
mercenaries hired by China to fight against Japan -
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. -
"In God We Trust" on American currency is a reminder that "there is God everywhere, whether we are conscious or not."