Founding docs
What document announced the separation of the American colonies from Great Britain?
Declaration of independence
the process by which an economy is transformed from a primarily agricultural one to one based on the manufacturing of goods
Industrialization
What war helped us get land in the western Pacific and Latin America.
Spanish-American War
an arms race competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union,
Nuclear race
when was the declaration of independence signed
July 4th, 1776
the process through which cities grow, and higher and higher percentages of the population comes to live in the city.
Urbanization
a constructed waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
Panama Canal
any of a series of three artificial Earth satellites, the first of whose launch by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, inaugurated the space age.
Sputnik
a document guaranteeing English political liberties
Magna Carta
an economic system in which private individuals or businesses own capital goods.
Capitalism
formally ending World War One.
Treaty of versailles
the U.S. approach to containing, or preventing, the spread of Communism after World War II.
Containment
a set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled to the New World
Mayflower Compact
a union founded in 1869.
Knights of Labor
an organization for international cooperation
League of Nations
erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other non communist areas.
Iron Curtain
an actual or hypothetical compact, or agreement, between the ruled or between the ruled and their rulers, defining the rights and duties of each.
Social Contract
a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
Sharecropping
National policy of avoiding political or economic entanglements with other countries.
Isolationism
barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany during the period from 1961 to 1989.
Berlin wall