Founding Ideas
Rights people are born with, such as life, liberty, and property.
Natural Rights
The movement of people from rural areas to cities
urbanization
Journalists who exposed corruption and social problems
Muckrakers
USS Maine
a period of fear of communism in the United States
Red scare
The idea that the government gets its power from the consent of the people
Social contract
poorly built overcrowded apartments in cities
Tenement housing
groups that controlled city politics through favors and corruption
Political machines
a canal that connected the Atlantic and specific oceans
Panama Canal
purchasing stocks using borrowed money
Buying on margin
A movement where thinkers like Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau influenced ideas about the government
Enlightement
an economic system based on private ownership and profit
capitalism
A reform movement aimed at improving society and government
Progressive movement
a policy of using military strength to influence other country's
Big stick policy
a cultural movement celebrating African american art and culture
Harlem renaissance
An uprising that showed the weaknesses of the articles of confederation
Shays' rebellion
a violent labor protest in Chicago
Haymarket riot
Amendments that expanded rights like income tax and voting
Progressive amendments
an international organization created to maintain peace after WWl
League of nations
shantytowns built by homeless people during the great depression
Hoovervilles
A series of writings that supported ratification of the constitution
Federalists papers
workers joining together to improve wages and working conditions
Organized labor (unions)
A photographer who exposed poor living conditions in cities
Jacob Rils
a policy of avoiding involvement in foreign conflicts
Isolationism
government programs created to combat the great depression
New deal