Founding docs
an official act taken by all 13 American colonies in declaring independence from British rule.
declaration of independence
the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian and feudal society into an industrial society
industrialization
The League of Nations was an international organization founded in 1920, following World War I, to maintain world peace and resolve disputes through diplomacy rather than war
League of Nations
the social and economic ideology that encouraging the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts is beneficial
consumerism
Containment is the act, process, or policy of keeping something harmful, dangerous, or expanding under control within specific limits.
Containment
the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain
July 4th, 1776
the process of making an area more urban.
Urbanization
a second-class battleship commissioned by the U.S. Navy in 1895.
U.S.S maine
a vibrant flowering of African American culture, literature, art, and music based in Harlem, NYC, during the 1920s and 1930s
Harlem Renaissance
The House Un-American Activities Committee
HUAC
Natural rights are those that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government, and so are universal, fundamental and inalienable
Natural rights
the first major national labor organization in the United States, advocating for a broad, inclusive "one big union" to represent skilled and unskilled workers, including women and African Americans.
Knights of labor
an 82-kilometer (51-mile) artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans,
Panama Canal
an area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded, especially as a consequence of drought or unsuitable farming practice.
Dust bowl
a political, military, and ideological barrier created by the Soviet Union to isolate itself and its Eastern European allies from Western contact and influence after World War II
Iron curtains
a set of rules that guides how a country, state, or other political organization works
US constitution
(of a tenant farmer) cultivate (farmland) giving a part of each crop as rent.
Sharecropping
initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, was a U.S. foreign policy shift toward Latin America emphasizing non-intervention, non-interference
Good neighbor policy
a shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s.
Hoovervilles
the practice of compiling a list of people, countries, or entities to be excluded, avoided, or distrusted due to perceived unacceptability or wrongdoing
blacklisting
spells out Americans' rights in relation to their governmen
Bill of Rights
a violent confrontation on May 4, 1886, in Chicago, stemming from a labor rally for an eight-hour workday.
Haymarket Riot
a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, planted to increase food production during a war.
Victory Gardens
a series of U.S. domestic programs, public work projects, financial reforms
new deal
a major Cold War conflict, beginning on June 25, 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea
korean war