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The New Nation
The Judiciary Act of 1789 was the first session of the First United States Congress establishing the U.S. federal judiciary. -
The new Nation
The Proclamation of the Neutrality was a formal announcement from United States President George Washington on April 22, 1793. This declared the nation neutral in the conflict between France and Great Britain. It threatened legal proceedings against any American providing assistance to any country at war. -
The New Nation
Pinckneys Treaty established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain. This defined the boundaries of the United States with the Spanish colonies and guaranteed the United States navigation rights on the Mississippi River. it ended a dispute between the two nations over the boundaries of the Spanish colony of West Florida. -
Expansion and Reform
Temperance Movement is a social movement urging reduced or prohibited use of alcoholic beverages. -
The Gilded Age
Samual Morse first tested the telegraph over a long distance.he contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. a co-inventor of the Morse code. Morse additionally supported the institution of slavery as well as anti-Catholic and anti-immigration efforts within the United States. -
Expansion and Reform
Womens rights of the Seneca Falls Convention was an early and influential women's rights convention, the first to be organized by women in the Western world, in Seneca Falls, New York. The Seneca Falls Convention as the start of the push for women's suffrage in the United States. -
The American Civil War and Reconstruction
The Uncle Toms Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War". Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century. historical impact of the book as a "vital antislavery tool.". -
The American Civil War and Reconstruction
Kansas Act opened new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. Allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30 -
The American Civil War and Reconstruction
The Firing of Fort Sumter was the start of the American Civil War. -
The Gilded Age
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in U.S. history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
The Gilded Age
The Sherman Anti-trust act was a landmark federal statute on United States competition law. It was the first federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies. Which prohibits certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be anticompetitive, and requires the federal government to investigate and pursue trusts. -
Progressivism
U.S v. E.C Knight and Co. is also known as the suger trust case. The case that limited the government's power to control monopolies. -
The age of Imperialism
The spanish American war was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States. effectively the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. Cuba had been under spains control for years. -
The Age of Imperialism
The Treaty of Paris was an agreement made in 1898 that resulted in Spain surrendering control of Cuba and ceding Puerto Rico. involved a payment of $20 million to Spain by the United States. The Treaty signaled the end of the Spanish Empire in America and the Pacific Ocean and marked the beginning of an age of United States colonial power. -
The Age of Imperialism
The Panama Canal was between North and South America offers a unique opportunity to create a water passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.This was of use to the United States, which completed the present Panama Canal in 1913 and officially opened it in 1914. Along the way, the state of Panama was created through its separation from Colombia in 1903. The canal is a vital link in world shipping. -
Progressivism
Northern Securities v. U.S in the Courts they ruled 5 to 4 against the stockholders of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroad companies. This had essentially formed a monopoly, dissolve the Northern Securities Company. -
American Tabacco v. U.S
The american tobacco v. U.S found that a large number of persons and corporations-including North Carolinians James Buchanan Duke, George W. Watts, and Benjamin N. Duke, as well as the American Tobacco Company, the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, and Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Company. Attempt to monopolize the business of tobacco in interstate commerce within the prohibitions of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. -
The Great War
Selective Service Act authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I.after the United States entered World War I by declaring war on Germany. The Act was canceled with the end of the war on November, 1918. The Act was upheld by the United States Supreme Court in the Selective Draft Law Cases in 1918 -
The Great War
Schenck v. U.S is if you are to helping to deny or disparage rights which it is the solemn duty of all citizens and residents of the United States to retain, on the grounds that military conscription constituted involuntary servitude, which is prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment. Schenck was indicted and convicted of violating the Espionage Act of 1917. Schenck appealed to the United States Supreme Court, arguing that the court decision violated his First Amendment right -
"Roarin 20s Great Depression"
The new Women were the new generation of the 1920s. The women liked to drink, party, ect. The women were not suppost to act this way. -
The Great War
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the Northeast, Midwest, and West for most of the 20th century. Some historians differentiate between the first Great Migration (1910–1930), numbering about 1.6 million migrants who left mostly rural areas to migrate to northern and midwestern industrial cities, and, after a lull during the Great Depression. -
"Roarin 20s Great Depression"
Jazz Singer the american musical film. first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences. Nickname was "talkies". Two films came out in the early 1917. -
"Roarin 20s Great Depression"
The Kellogg-Brand Pact was an international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them. The Pact renounced the use of war and called for the peaceful settlement of disputes. -
'WWll and the Cold War"
The legacy of the Neutrality Acts is widely regarded as having been generally negative: they made no distinction between aggressor and victim. -
'WWll and the Cold War"
The Berlin wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic. It completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. -
Recovery, Prosperity, Turmoil
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public. -
Recovery, Prosperity, Turmoil
The Voting Rights Act 1965 outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S. -
The US since the Vietnam War
The 26th Amendment let only people over 18 to vote. Everyone who was allowed to vote had to be 18 or older. This Amendment has changed many things in our history. -
The US since the Vietnam War
Camp David Accords was a Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel. -
Recovery, Prosperity, Turmoil
The Brown v. Board of Education case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. This also allowed state-sponsored segregation. -
The US since the Vietnam War
The Patriot Act was signed into law by President George W. Bush. It was also a response to the terrorist attacks of September 11th. -
Expansion and Reform
Nationalism is a belief, creed or political ideology that involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a nation. -
'WWll and the Cold War"
Pearl Harbor is a lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. The attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan brought the US to World War ll.
