US History

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration of Independence announced the colonies independence from Great Britain.
  • U.S. Constitution

    U.S. Constitution

    Supreme law of the United States and has all the admendments
  • Political machines

    Political machines

    politics of democracies higher power
  • Eugenics

    Eugenics

    Eugenicists worldwide believed that they could perfect human beings and eliminate so-called social ills through genetics and heredity.
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

    Could claim government land as yours who never had borne arm against the U.S. government
  • Social Darwinism

    Social Darwinism

    the theory that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection
  • Klondike gold rush

    Klondike gold rush

    Skookum Jim and his family caused a gold rush in Canada
  • Spanish-American War

    Spanish-American War

    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. https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/spanish-american-war
  • Panama Canal

    Panama Canal

    President Theodore Roosevelt wanted an easier way for transportation.
  • Mucrackers

    Mucrackers

    Mucrackers were famous journalist , such as Upton Sinclair wrote the jungle in 1906
  • Referendum

    Referendum

    referendum is a direct vote by the electorate on a proposal, law, or political issue.
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    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 amendment

    17th amendment

    the United States Senate should be made up of two Senators out of each state.
  • Causes of WWI

    Causes of WWI

    assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
  • Harlem Renaissance

    Harlem Renaissance

    Artistic and cultural music during the great depression
  • Alvin York

    Alvin York

    medal of honor
  • 18th amendment

    18th amendment

    outlawed the production, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.
  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment

    rights for women to vote
  • Jane Adams

    Jane Adams

    American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, and author. second lady to win peace prize.
  • Dust Bowl

    Dust Bowl

    Dust bowl was a big dust storm that damaged aggriculture
  • Italian invasion of Ethiopia

    Italian invasion of Ethiopia

    the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a war of aggression which was fought between Italy and Ethiopia from October 1935 to February 1937
  • Flying Tigers

    Flying Tigers

    Air jets to help oppose the Japanese invasion of China
  • Bracero program

    Bracero program

    This series of diplomatic accords between Mexico and the United States permitted millions of Mexican men to work legally in the United States on short-term labor contracts.
  • Korematsu v. U.S.

    Korematsu v. U.S.

    was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to uphold the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast Military Area during World War II.
  • Navajo Code Talkers

    Navajo Code Talkers

    They were use for hidden communication during ww2
  • Audie Murphy

    Audie Murphy

    He received every military combat award for valor available from the U.S. Army, as well as French and Belgian awards for heroism.
  • Nuremberg Trials

    Nuremberg Trials

    The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries and other crimes in World War II.
  • Omar Bradley

    Omar Bradley

    was a senior officer of the United States Army during and after World War II, rising to the rank of General of the Army. Bradley was the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and oversaw the U.S. military's policy-making in the Korean War.
  • "In God We Trust"

    "In God We Trust"

    They added "under god" in the pledge of allegiance.
  • Tenement

    Tenement

    Tenement housing was often built for the poor or immigrants.