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A proclamation made on July 4, 1776. Which gave freedom and independence to the 13 Colonies from Great Britain. -
US motto that appears on the Great Seal. Latin for "Out of many, one" -
Established America's government and laws and gave citizens basic rights. -
Each state shall have two senators. -
Civil rights and liberties given to individuals. -
In the politics of representative democracies, a political machine is a party organizer. -
Very cheap high-rise apartment buildings that could house handfuls of families. -
Liberty, Egalitarianism, Individualism, Populism, and Laissez-faire. The five values Tocqueville said were crucial to America's success. -
American adults can claim 160 acres of land. -
A reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in England and the United States. -
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. -
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 -
Any group of American writers identified with pre-World War I reform and exposé writing. -
The Carnegie Steel Company in Homestead, Pennsylvania discharged workers from the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers Union -
Skookum Jim and his family found gold near the Klondike River in Canada's Yukon Territory. -
a period of conflict between Spain and the United States. The war began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. This conflict made 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 study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable. -
President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy was "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." -
Built in 1904 and was built to shorten the distance between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. It made traveling costs lower and faster for trades. -
The president created the national park system -
The prohibition of selling or transporting alcohol is illegal. -
A period of rich cross-disciplinary artistic and cultural activity among African Americans between the end of World War I. -
Germany's resumption of submarine attacks on passenger and merchant ships became the primary motivation behind Wilson's decision to lead the United States into WW1 -
Granted women the right to vote -
The protection of native-born people. -
A bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding. -
The limitation of the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. -
This event granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. -
The government formally deported around 82,000 Mexicans from 1929 to 1935. This constituted a significant portion of the Mexican population in the US. -
American Volunteer Group that formed to help oppose the Japanese invasion of China. -
Authorized the evacuation of all people deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland. -
March of 70,000 US and Filipino prisoners of WW2 captured by the Japanese. -
When the US signed the Mexican Farm and Labor Agreement which allowed Mexican men to work legally in the US on short-term labor contracts. -
Research and development during WW2 produced the first nuclear weapons. -
Supreme Court decision to uphold the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast Military. -
The trials uncovered the German leadership that supported the Nazi dictatorship. -
The official motto of the US that replaced E Pluribus Unum -
Congress gets complete power over taxes.