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This document states that the United Sates was now independent from Great Britain -
Meaning "Out of many, one." This is a traditional saying of the United States and appears on many symbolic things of the United Sates, such as coins and the Great Seal. -
A document that states the supreme laws of the United States. -
This document states the 10 amendments of the United States, in simple terms stating the rights of citizens in the U.S. -
Low quality housing made up of several floors with several rooms on each floor with a shared stairway access.
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One of the theories that defines the values of the United States. -
An act created to help grow the economic growth of the west of the U.S. This act stated that 160 acres of federal land would be given to any citizen if they agreed to farm it. The land could be used as residence as well. -
Theories and societal practices that purported to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest. -
A protest caused by tensions in a steel company between management and workers. It quickly became violent and ended in all of them getting fired.
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Act made to bring the rich and poor and reform through social justice -
A group of American writers whose goal was to bring awareness to the harsh working conditions, child labor, urban poverty, and prostitution. -
Location of the New York City-centered music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States.
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An immigration of over 100,000 people to Canada in hopes of getting gold and becoming rich.
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The Spanish–American War was a period of armed conflict between Spain and the United States. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
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A small group of people that have authority or are above other people (which are not involved in the government) that take control over a city, country, or state. -
the policy of carefully mediated negotiation ("speaking softly") supported by the unspoken threat of a powerful military
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A waterway located in Panama which also separates North and South America and serves to transport goods between the two
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The scientifically erroneous and immoral theory of “racial improvement” and “planned breeding,”
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Stating that the U.S. congress should be made up of two senates out of every state.
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an amendment that allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population. -
Protects the natural and cultural resources and values of the National Park System for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations.
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When the government took action to protect native and indigenous people over immigrants. -
involved national security, big oil companies and bribery and corruption at the highest levels of the government of the United States. It was the most serious scandal in the country’s history prior to the Watergate affair of the Nixon administration in the 1970s.
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An intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. -
A law that prohibits the United States to deny a person the right to vote due to their gender or race.
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A federal law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere.
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This act granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. The right to vote, however, was governed by state law.
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Mass deportation during the great depression, in hopes to reserve jobs for white people.
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The First American Volunteer Group of the Republic of China Air Force, nicknamed the Flying Tigers, was formed to help oppose the Japanese invasion of China.
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Attack on pearl harbor, Japanese control over China and Asia, German aggression, and fear of German invasion.
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This order authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland.
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The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners
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This program permitted millions of Mexican men to work legally in the United States on short-term labor contracts.
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The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. -
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.
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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.
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An official motto of the United States which replaced "E pluribus unum", which is seen on things such as currency and monuments.
