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Declaration of Independence announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain -
E Pluribus Unum is a traditional motto from the united states. It disappeared then got found by Charles Thomson. It's Latin for "Out of many, one". -
The US Constitution established America's national government and fundamental laws and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens -
The Bill Of Rights was the first 10 Amendment to the Constitution. It's important because it limits the power of the government, and by doing so, it grants individual rights and liberties. -
Politicians started building political organizations called machines in the early 1900’s to guarantee their success in municipal elections. Machines provided dreadful neighborhoods with new roads and systems and helped immigrants find jobs. They took over much of the politics and were led by a boss that controlled government jobs and services through loyalty and corruption. -
Alexis de Tocqueville (Author of Democracy in America) named five values crucial to American success as a constitutional republic. Tocqueville's 5 Values were (1) Liberty (2) Egalitarianism (3) Individualism (4) Populism (5) Laissez-Faire. Liberty. freedom from arbitrary / tyrannical government control. -
Nativism is the political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of native or indigenous -
President Abraham Lincoln signed the homestead Act on May 20, 1862. In 1863 Daniel Freeman gave citizens or future citizens 160 acres of public land. -
Social Darwinism refers to various theories and societal practices that purported to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology, economics and politics -
Social movement began in 1880's and peaked around the 1920's in England and the United States. Settlement houses impacted the Gilded Age in a positive manner because they provided educational and recreational services to the community. Settlement houses provided education and help to the working class and spread rapidly throughout the United States. They provided social services and education to the poor workers that lived there. -
Tin Pan Alley was a collection of music publishers and songwriters in New York City which dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They formed a union to make sure that artists were paid each time their songs were reprinted. During the Second World War, Tin Pan Alley and the federal government teamed up to produce a war song that would inspire the American public to support the fight against the Axis. -
The Homestead Strike was a violent labor dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company's private security agents and many of its workers that occurred in 1892 in Homestead, Pennsylvania. Also known as the Homestead steel strike, Homestead massacre, or Battle of Homestead, it was an industrial lockout and strike which began as a result of decreased wages. -
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of Yukon, in north-western Canada, between 1896 and 1899. Gold was discovered there by local miners on August 16, 1896; when news reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year, it triggered a stampede of prospectors. -
The Spanish-American War of 1898 ended Spain’s colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere and secured the position of the United States as a Pacific power. U.S. victory in the war produced a peace treaty that compelled the Spanish to relinquish claims on Cuba, and to cede sovereignty over Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines to the United States. -
The idea is negotiating peacefully but also having strength in case things go wrong. -
Muckrakers were a group of writers, including the likes of Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, and Ida Tarbell, during the Progressive era who tried to expose the problems that existed in American society as a result of the rise of big business, urbanization, and immigration. -
A tenement is a type of building where many immigrants lived that was poorly built and overcrowded. It was dangerous to live there because they were cramped, poorly lit, under ventilated, and usually without indoor plumbing. The tenements were hotbeds of vermin and disease, and were frequently swept by cholera, typhus, and tuberculosis. -
Allows congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population. -
The Seventeenth Amendment took away the right of the legislature of a state to elect the senator and forced each state to use a majority of voters from the state. The importance lies in the fact that you can have legislatures of states be one party and Senators be from another party now. -
The initial purpose for building the canal was to shorten the distance ships had to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It enabled shippers to cheaply transport different types of goods in a shorter period of time. Also, the US for the first time was going to be able to gain control of both oceans which was critical in times of war. -
National Parks existed before the Progressive Era, but Progressive reformers -- specifically presidents Roosevelt and Wilson -- expanded the idea of what a National Park could be and solidified these lands within the government. Not only was there now a government body devoted to the parks, but he also ensured that the NPS would ensure protection of special lands and continue to grow in the future -
The German invasion of Belgium, American loans,The reintroduction of unrestricted submarine warfare -
The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. It declared the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors illegal, though it did not outlaw the actual consumption of alcohol -
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex, in effect recognizing the right of women to a vote. -
The Tea Pot Dome Scandal was an extreme example of government corruption in United States history. The issue revolved around oil rich lands at Tea Pot Dome, Wyoming and Elk Hills California that had been set aside by the government for use by the U.S. Navy as emergency reserves. Albert Fall arranged to have these lands transferred from the Navy to the Department of the Interior. Then in 1922, Fall leased out these lands to private oil companies for an assortment of loans, bonds, and cash. -
United States federal law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere -
The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census. It completely excluded immigrants from Asia. -
Approved on June 2, 1924, this act of Congress granted citizenship to any Native Americans born within the United States -
The U.S. Deported a Million of Its Own Citizens to Mexico During the Great Depression -
The Mexican Repatriation was the repatriation and deportation of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans to Mexico from the United States during the Great Depression between 1929 and 1939. Estimates of how many were repatriated range from 355,000 to 2 million. The policy, authorized by President Herbert Hoover whose administration scapegoated Mexican-Americans for the Great Depression, was instituted as a means to free up jobs for Americans suffering financially. -
The term eugenics was coined in 1883 by British explorer and natural scientist Francis Galton, who, influenced by Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, advocated a system that would allow “the more suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable. -
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 -
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. -
They were mercenaries hired by China to fight against Japan. They were called the American Volunteer Group and later became known as the Flying Tigers. Though only in combat for less than seven months, the group became famous at the time for its ability to inflict outsize damage on Japan's better-equipped and larger aircraft fleet. -
Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac. The prisoners were forced to march despite many dying on the journey. -
Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 194 -
The U.S. Executive Order 9066 was signed by President Franklin Roosevelt during World War II. It authorized the Secretary of War to designate specific areas in the country as military zones. The E.O. 9066 eventually resulted to the relocation of several Japanese-Americans to detention camps. -
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, via San Fernando, Pampanga, the prisoners being forced to march despite many dying on the journey -
The Bracero program was a series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated on August 4, 1942, when the United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement with Mexico -
A series of laws and diplomatic agreements when the United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement with Mexico. For these farmworkers, the agreement guaranteed decent living conditions (sanitation, adequate shelter and food), and a minimum wage of 30 cents an hour, as well as protections from forced military service, and guaranteed part of wages were to be put into a private savings account in Mexico. -
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons -
After Executive Order 9066, A Japanese American man named Fred Korematsu lied about his ethnicity to keep from having to go to an internment camp. The Supreme Court ruled against him stating that Congress and the Executive have the right to issue military orders that evicted and placed individuals in internment camps based off their Japanese ancestry due to the fact that potential of espionage existing among Japanese Americans outweighed their constitutional rights. -
Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214, 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 -
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. -
Nuremberg Trails was a series of trials held in Nürnberg, Germany, in 1945–46, in which 24 former Nazi leaders were indicted and tried as war criminals by the International Military Tribunal. -
Dwight D.Eisenhower signs a law officially declaring "In God We Trust" to be nations official motto. It replaced E pluribus unum, which had been the de facto motto since the initial 1776 design of the Great Seal of the United States. -
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s