Founding documents
a document guaranteeing English political liberties
Magna Carta
the political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants, including by supporting immigration-restriction measures
Nativism
the buying and selling of goods or services on the Internet
E-commerce
the concentration of human populations into discrete areas
Urbanization
a manmade pathway to connect the Atlantic to the Pacific
Panama Canal
chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory.
Northwest Ordinance
a nationwide ban on the sale and import of alcoholic beverages that lasted from 1920 to 1933
Prohibition
the American-led global counterterrorism campaign launched in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
War on Terror
an economic system in which private individuals or businesses own capital goods.
capitalism
outlined the conditions of peace between Germany and the victorious Allies, led by the United States, France, and the United Kingdom
Treaty of Versailles
a movement of the 18th century that stressed the belief that science and logic give people more knowledge and understanding than tradition and religion.
Enlightenment
the time period in the 1920s and 1930s when jazz music dance gained widespread popularity throughout the United States
Jazz Age
based on a belief in limited government, individualism, traditionalism, republicanism, and limited federal governmental power in relation to U.S. states.
New conservatism
state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation
Jim crow laws
tried to keep the United States out of war, by making it illegal for Americans to sell or transport arms, or other war materials to belligerent nations.
Neutrality Acts
A violent insurrection in the Massachusetts countryside during 1786 and 1787.
Shay's Rebellion
an economic theory that was first noted in the twentieth century
Consumerism
sequence of events that led to the dissolution of the U.S.S.R.
Collapse of USSR
journalists (writers for newspapers and magazines) who exposed the dirt, corruption, and ills of American society
Muckrakers
national policy of avoiding political or economic entanglements with other countries
Isolationism
a supporter of federal government. especially US.
Federalists
two Italian-born immigrants, workers, and anarchists
Sacco Venzetti
modernized our ability to monitor criminal and terrorist communications by applying our wiretap laws to new technologies such as cell phones and e-mail without modifying or reducing the legal and constitutional restraints applicable to those tools.
USA Patriot Act of 2001
single-family buildings divided into multiple living spaces
Tenement Housing
vegetable gardens planted during the world wars in order to ensure an adequate food supply for civilians and troops.
Victory Gardens