Founding Docs
A foundational document of the United States that declares the separation of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain on July 4, 1776.
What's the Declaration of Independence?
The process where a large portion of a population migrates to urban areas, leading to the growth of cities.
What's Urbanization?
A foreign policy approach used by President Theodore Roosevelt. It emphasized the importance of having a strong military, particularly a powerful navy to project American power.
What's the Big Stick Policy?
A period of competition, particularly between the United States and the Soviet Union, to develop powerful nuclear weapons.
What's the Nuclear race?
A period of greatly elevated birth rates in the United States after World War II.
What's the Baby Boom/G.I. Bill?
It's a document signed by King John of England in 1215. It influenced the development of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
What's the Magna Carta?
A type of multi-family, typically low-cost apartment buildings, that was common in the 19th and early 20th centuries in densely populated urban areas.
What's the Tenement Housing?
A U.S. foreign policy initiative, directed at Latin America, that wanted to improve relations with Latin American nations by reducing US intervention in their affairs.
What's the Good Neighbor Policy?
A term popularized by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the political and ideological division between the Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe and the Western democracies.
What's the Iron Curtain?
A shift in population from urban centers to suburban areas, reshaping American demographics and economies after WWII
What's the Growth of the Suburbs?
A major intellectual and cultural movement that happened in the 18th century in Europe, characterized by a focus on reason and progress.
What's the enlightenment?
An economic system where private individuals or organizations own the means of production.
What's Capitalism?
A peace agreement signed in 1919 that officially ended World War I between Germany and the Allied Powers.
What's the Treaty of Versailles?
A physical barrier erected by East Germany in 1961 to separate East Berlin from West Berlin, effectively dividing the city and the country.
What's the Berlin Wall?
A piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
What's the Voting Rights Acts of 1965?
A law passed in 1787 that established a system for governing the territory which included the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota.
What's the Northwest Ordinance?
A system of state and local laws that brought racial segregation and discrimination in America from the 1880s to the 1960s.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
An international organization formed after World War I that wanted to prevent future wars through diplomacy and peaceful resolutions.
What's the League of Nations?
U.S. foreign policy initiatives started after World War II to fight the spread of communism and rebuild Europe.
What's the Truman Doctrine/Marshall Plan?
It abolished the country-of-origin quota system that had been in place since the 1920s.
What's the Immigration Act of 1965?
The supreme law of the United States that describes the structure and powers of the federal government and the rights and freedoms of its citizens.
What's the US constitution?
A period of political and social reform in the United States from the 1890s to the 1920s, that wanted to fix issues coming from industrialization, urbanization, and political corruption.
What's the Progressive Movement?
A global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers.
What's World War II?
A 13-day standoff in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union, brought on by the Soviet Union secretly installing nuclear missiles in Cuba
What's the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Establishment of woman's right to choose about abortion.
What's the Feminism/Roe v. Wade?