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Sovereignty
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Bill Of Rights
A list of the rights garanteed to the citizens of the United States. There are many different versions of this in different countries -
John Hancock
Died October 8, 1793. He was i big part in the signing of declaration literrally. With his massive signature there was no missing him. -
John Jay
Died on May 17, 1829. Was a patriot, statesmen, and diplomate. Also sighned the treaty of paris. -
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Benjamin Rush
Was the founder of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Also leader of the Enlightenment in America -
John Peter Muhlenberg
Died on the same day but in 1807. Was a member of the continental army during revolutionary war. -
Declaration of Independence
The declaration made the british infuriated because this was the americans saying we are alone leave me alone which cause the revolutionary war. -
Unalienable rights
Two different rights Legal rights: Rights bestowed onto a person by given legal systems. Also Natural Rights: Laws, Customs, and beliefs that everyone gets. -
E pluribus unum
Concidered a main US motto. Meaning "Out of many, one" and was not the motto after 1956 -
Branches of Government
There are 3 different branches the legislative, Judicial, and Executive. The three branches have equall power and work together to make the United States work well. -
Constitutional Republic
A government created and controlled by the constitution. The Constitution of the United States of America is, in the text of law of the Declaration of Independence. -
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Urbanization
The physical growth of urban areas -
The Factory System
A new way of organizing labor made necessary by the development of machines -
The invention of the Automobile Political Corruption
The 1824 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION marked the final collapse of the Republican-Federalist political framework. For the first time no candidate ran as a Federalist, while five significant candidates competed as Democratic-Republicans. Clearly, no party system functioned in 1824. -
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Growth of Railroads
This caused a massive imagration to the west which was stimulated by the Homestaed Act -
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Alexis de Tocquevilles Five Values: Liberty
Alexis believed the Democracy= Liberity While Socialism= Solitude and restriant. He believed Liberity was neccessary to have to get the "American Dream: -
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Alexis de Tocquevilles Five Values: Egalitarianism
Equality in all aspects of life. The idea that everyone is created equal -
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Alexis de Tocquevilles Five Values: Individualism
The ability to be your own person and be different then everybody else. -
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Alexis de Tocquevilles Five Values: Populism
The political party of the people the everyday citizens joining together to be a group. -
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Alexis de Tocquevilles Five Values: Laissez-faire
A free economy in which the government intervens as little as possible with the citizens. -
New Inventions of the Gilded Age
Railroads, Trains, Barbed wire, etc. -
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Andrew Carnegie
Led the expansion of the steel industry in the industrial revolution of the 19th century -
Manifest Destiny
American Settlers were meant to travel westward to expand -
The American Dream
I figurative saying that shows what everybody wants in life. -
Bessemer Process
the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron prior to the open hearth furnace. -
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Eugene V. Debbs
One of the founding memebers of the Industrial Workers of the world -
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Teddy Roosevelt
At the age of 42 he became the youngest president -
Settlement of the west
Caused by cattle, railroads, and the homestead act -
The Homestead Act
An Act that stated that Anyone who had not taken up arms against the US could buy land at little to no cost -
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Industrialization of the Guilded Age
Was a period of economic growth in the United States in which we were far ahead of Great Britian -
Boss Tweed in the Gilded Age
graft, bribery, rigged elections; took $200 million from the city -
Horizontal Integration
a strategy where a company creates or acquires production units for outputs which are alike - either complementary or competitive. -
Horizontal Integration
describes a style of growth and management control. Vertically integrated companies in a supply chain are united through a common owner. -
Barbed Wire
Created by an inventor named Josef Glidden it has scarp edges and broke up the big open ranges -
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Upton Sinclair
An AMerican writer the\at wrote close to 100 books one called 'The Jungle' which is related to indians -
Americanization
To cause someone to act like an american like the americans did to the indian children -
Assimilation
When a group's language and or culture begin to act like anothers -
Social Darwinism
Defined as " the survival of the fittest" the belief that the rich dont have to help the poor and if your not good enough to make it you fall -
Eugenics
a theory and practice of improving the genetic quality of the human population -
Haymarket Riot
A bomb was thrown at a group of policemen trying to break up a labor riot in Chicago -
The Dawes Act
The Dawes Act calls for the breakup of the reservations and the treatment of Indians as individuals rather than tribes. -
The battle of Wonded Knee
After a Native American fires at a US Army troop the troops massacre 300 Indians, including seven children. This is the final step in the war of the West -
Anti- Trust
was the first important federal measure to limit the power of companies that controlled a high percentage of the market -
Trust Law
In common law legal systems, a trust is a relationship whereby property is held by one party for the benefit of another. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
preventing the sale or transportation of misbranded or poisonous foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors -
John D. Rockefeller Labor Unions
The children that worked in Rockefellers oil factories. A great example of child labor -
John D. Rockefeller Labor Unions
The children that worked in Rockefellers oil factories. A great example of child labor -
Bicameral Congress
A system havingtwo legeslative chambers which have an upper and lower house. This is a primary advantage. The Bi in Bicameral means 2 -
Political Machines
a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands a group of bussnessis -
In God We Trust
Adopted as the United States motto in 1956. Is on all the dollar bills and the 100. -
Immigration
To come live perminantly in a foreign contry. Like the forigners immigrated to the Americas and took over the indians -
Nativism
is the political position of focing a nations people to be compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants. -
Assembly Line
A group that works together in which each have a different job to complete the end result
