US Foreign Policy (1898-1930)
The US was committed to this type of Foreign Policy from after the first world war until the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Isolationism
The Declaration of Independence was signed on this date.
July 4th, 1776
This amendment outlawed the slave trade in the US.
13th
A Monopoly is bad for the consumer for this reason.
There is no other competition so the monopoly can raise the price.
African Americans were oppressed under this system after the abolition of slavery.
Jim Crow
Big Stick Diplomacy was the foreign policy strategy of this US President.
Theodore Roosevelt
Federalists were in favor of ratifying this historical document.
The Constitution
The 16th amendment gives the government the ability to levy this type of tax.
Income Tax
The term used to describe journalists and others trying to expose social injustices, poor working conditions, and political corruption.
Muckrakers
This form of music saw an explosion during the Harlem Renaissance.
Jazz
The League of Nations was the brainchild of this US President.
Woodrow Wilson
Worried about falling back into Tyranny like they faced under the rule of the British, Anti-Federalists believed in creating this document to ensure that their rights would be protected.
Bill of Rights
This amendment established the direct election of senators.
17th
John D. Rockefeller held a monopoly over this crucial US industry.
Oil
This terrorist group used violent tactics against African Americans including public lynchings and voter intimidation in the South.
KKK
The League of Nations failed for these two reasons.
No Military, US did not join.
Influenced by philosophers such as John Locke, Thomas Jefferson included these two Enlightenment ideals into the Declaration of Independence.
Natural Rights, Social Contract Theory
This amendment gave all men the right to vote regardless of race.
15th Amendment
With the boom of factories and industries, most people working had to live in this type of environment.
Urban/Cities
The Great Migration saw African Americans move north for these two reasons.
Better job opportunities, less segregation
This 1928 pact was signed by the US and many other countries to outlaw war.
Kellog-Briand Pact
The Northwest Ordinance was consequential for these two reasons. (There are a few, you just have to name two!)
No slavery in the North, free public schools, pathway to new states being created, precedents for later action, established civil liberties (religious, trial by jury).
This amendment ruled that all people born in the US were citizens, established due process and equal protection under the law.
14th Amendment
The free-market capitalist idea of limited government regulation and allowing industries and corporations to operate the way they saw fit was often referred to using this French Term.
Laissez Faire
Later repealed because of the Brown V Board of Education ruling, this Supreme Court case affirmed segregation using the separate but equal doctrine.
Plessy V Ferguson