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US History
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Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a document that was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. The Declaration of Independence announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. It explained why the Congress on July 2 had resolved that United Colonies deserve the right to be Free and Independent States. The final separation was officially voted was July 2, although, the 4th is the day on which the Declaration of Independence was adopted. -
U.S Constitution
The Constitution of the United States of America is the fundamental law of the U.S. federal system of government and a landmark document of the Western world. The Constitution defines the principal organs of government and their jurisdictions and the basic rights of citizens. On June 21, 1788, the Constitution became the official framework of the government of the United States of America when New Hampshire became the ninth of 13 states to ratify it. -
Bill Of Rights
The Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, adopted as a single unit in 1791. It spells out the rights of the people of the United States in relation to their government. The Bill of Rights was added because Three delegates, mainly George Mason, did not sign the U.S. Constitution largely because it lacked a bill of rights. By December 15, 1791, three-fourths of the states had ratified 10 of these, now known as the “Bill of Rights.” -
Expansionism
The belief that a country should grow larger, a policy of increasing a country's size by expanding its territory. -
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Nativism
Nativism is a reaction against immigrants. Earlier inhabitants of an area or a country sometimes develop a dislike or fear of immigrants. -
Alex de Tocqueville and his Five Principles : Liberty, Egalitarianism, Individualism, Populism, and Laissez-faire.
Liberty = freedom: Bill of rights
Egalitarianism - Equality: people vote having the same value. Getting to go to the same bus.
Individualism = valuing a person's individuality: The right to live the life you chose. (opportunity).
Populism = The idea that common people have an influence on government. (Democracy).
Laissez - faire - The government should be "hands off" or "mind they damn business" with the economy (Rights) -
Homestead Act
The Homestead Act is a significant legislative action that promotes the settlement and development of the American West. It was also notable for the opportunity it gave African Americans to own land. -
Eminent Domain
Eminent Domain is the power of government to take private property for public use without the owner’s consent. The U.S. Supreme Court first examined federal eminent domain power in 1876 in Kohl v. United States. This case presented a landowner's challenge to the power of the United States to condemn land in Cincinnati, Ohio for use as a custom house and post office building. -
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Settlement house movement
The Settlement houses were organizations that provided support services to the Urban poor and European immigrants, often including education, healthcare, childcare, and employment resources. -
Eugenics
Eugenics is the immoral theory of "racial improvement" and "planned breeding". Eugenicists worldwide believed that they could perfect human beings and eliminate so-called social ills through genetic and heredity. -
Jane Addams
Helped teach immigrants English and how to assimilation (founder of Hull House) -
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Alfred Thayer Mahan is known for his book "Influence Of Sea Power Upon History." he argued that a strong nation needs a strong nnavy. -
Spanish - American War
The Spanish - American war was sparked by an explosion on the USS Maine. 260 sailors died and they thought it was an attack from Spain. The explosion was actually a boiler error and not an attack from Spain. -
Muckrackers
Muckrakers were writers who criticized the current state of American business. Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens and Upton Sinclair were a few of the most famous muckrakers. Sinclair wrote The Jungle which was one of the most important novels for changing the meat packaging industry. -
Sanford B. Dole
Sanford B. Dole was the president of the republic of Hawaii and first governor of the territory of Hawaii after it was annexed by United States. -
Initiative
Any citizen or organization may gather a predetermined number of signatures to qualify a measure to be placed on a ballot, and to be voted upon in a future election. -
Referendum
Referendum is a direct vote by the electorate on a proposal, law, or political issue. -
Henry Ford
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. -
W.E.B. Du Bois
Founded the National Association for Advancement of Colored people to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights for all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination. -
Japan annexation of Korea
Japan was able to annex Korea in 1910 due to its military strength. The union of Korea and Japan was not “peacefully accomplished by the mutual consent of the people.”The looming presence of the military enabled the annexation. -
Recall
Recall is a power reserved to the voters that allows the voters, by petition, to demand the removal of an elected official. -
16th Amendment
enacted an income tax. -
17th Amendment
States directly elect their senators to the U.S senate. -
Imperialism
A policy or practice by which a country increases its power by gaining control over other areas of the world. -
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance is a blossoming 1918–37 of African American culture, particularly in the creative arts, and the most influential movement in African American literary history. Embracing literary, musical, theatrical, and visual arts, participants sought to recapture “the Negro” apart from the white stereotypes that had influenced Black peoples’ relationship to their heritage and to each other. -
18th Amendment
illegal to purchase alcohol in the United States -
19th Amendment
Women's right to vote -
Lost Generation
Lost Generation, a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and established their literary reputations in the 1920s. The term is also used more generally to refer to the post-World War I generation. The generation was “lost” in the sense that its inherited values were no longer relevant in the postwar world and because of its spiritual alienation from a United States seemed to its members to be hopelessly provincial, materialistic, and emotionally barren. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was an American political scandal of the early 1920s. It involved the secret leasing of federal oil reserves at Elk Hills, California, and Teapot Dome, Wyoming, by Albert Bacon Fall. Fall became the first cabinet member to be imprisoned for crimes committed while in office. -
American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
On June 2, 1924, Congress enacted the Indian Citizenship Act, which granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. The right to vote, however, was governed by state law; until 1957, some states barred Native Americans from voting. -
Immigration Act of 1924
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. -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey organized the United States’ first Black nationalist movement. In the years following World War I, he urged Black Americans to be proud of their identity. He established branches of his Universal Negro Improvement Association throughout predominantly Black communities of the Northeast. He used his gospel of Black pride and hope for an independent Black African nation to gain a following that, he claimed, was about two million people in 1919. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Charles A. Lindbergh remembered for the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York City to Paris. -
The Dust Bowl
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. -
invasion of Manchuria
Seeking raw materials to fuel its growing industries, Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria in 1931. By 1937 Japan controlled large sections of China, and war crimes against the Chinese became commonplace. -
Civilian Conservation Corps.
Helped provide teenagers with jobs in national forest -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Restores confidence in america's banks -
Works Progress Administration
Get people back to working, trying to give everyone a job -
Social Security Administration (SSA)
Anyone who could now work, was able to receive pension -
German annexation of Austria and Sudetenland invasion of Czechoslovakia
The northern part of Czechoslovakia was known as the Sudetenland. The Sudetenland was desired by Germany not only for its territory, but also because a majority of its population were 'ethnically' German. In the summer of 1938 Hitler demanded the annexation of the Sudetenland into Germany. -
Navajo Code Talkers
29 Navajo men use Navajo words and key phrases, that can be translated in seconds to communicate military tactics. -
The Bracero Program
The Bracero program was an agreement between the U.S. and Mexican governments that permitted Mexican citizens to take temporary agricultural work in the United States. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Force in Europe, and achieved the five-star rank of General of the Army. He planned and supervised the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–1943 and the invasion of Normandy from the Western Front in 1944–1945. -
Bataan Death March
American prisoners were forced to march over 60 miles in the Philippines. Thousands of troops died due to brutality from captors who starved and the marches and those to weak to walk. -
Omar Bradley
Omar Bradley was a senior U.S. Army officer who served as field commander of American soldiers during the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day and led Allied troops as they drove into Germany near the end of World War II -
George S. Patton
U.S. Army officer who was an outstanding practitioner of mobile tank warfare in the European and Mediterranean theatres during World War II. -
Korematsu v. U.S.
legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court convicted Fred Korematsu, a son of Japanese immigrants who was born in Oakland, California, for having violated an exclusion order requiring him to submit to forced relocation during World War II. -
Tuskegee Airmen
Tuskegee Airmen were the U.S. Army Air Forces who trained at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama during World War II.They constituted the first African American flying unit in the U.S. military. -
Nuremberg Trials
Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949. The defendants, who included Nazi Party officials and high-ranking military officers along with German industrialists, lawyers and doctors, were indicted on such charges as crimes against peace and crimes against humanity.