History
The first written document of the New World, created by 41 adult men on the mayflower ship, to create laws for self-government and establish a civil body politic.
Mayflower Compact
Created the first organized U.S. territory, setting a blueprint for westward expansion.
Northwest Ordinance
A political coalition that opposed the ratification of the U.S. constitution, displaying disapproval of a strong government/the federalist papers.
Anti-Federalists
85 essays written to convince people to ratify the U.S. constitution- promoting a strong central government.
Federalist Papers
When large amounts of people inhabit small areas, transforming them into become cities.
Urbanization
Crowded, cheap, and unsanitary apartment buildings in poor areas of cities.
Tenement Housing
Farming in which people rent land in exchange for portion of crops.
Sharecropping
Political parties that provided services(jobs and housing) in exchange for votes.
Political Machines
First intergovernmental organization- designed to maintain world peace through diplomacy.
League of Nations
Passed between 1935 through 1939, to prevent the U.S. from being caught up in foreign wars.
Neutrality Acts
Located in schools, neighborhoods, and houses in the 40s, these were used to boost food supply.
Victory Gardens
The belief that native-born inhabitants are superior to immigrants, driven by the fear that newcomers are a threat to power and things overall.
Nativism
A booming sequence of African American literature, art, and music during the 1920s and 1930s.
Harlem Rennaissance
A 1920s era defined by social changes, rebellion, and the rise of jazz.
Jazz Age
The worst stock market crash in history, marking the end of the Roaring Twenties.
Black Tuesday
A Cold War competition between the U.S. and USSR, to possess the most nuclear weapons.
Nuclear Race
U.S. policies made in 1947-1948 to contain Soviet expansion and rebuild war-torn Europe.
Truman Doctrine/Marshall Plan
The relocation of business processes to a foreign country to reduce prices, and contracting tasks to a external party to improve business focus.
Offshoring/Outsourcing
Increased global interdependence caused by trade and technology.
Globalization
American led military campaign following the 9/11 attacks.
War on Terror
Authorized $25 billion to construct a 41,000-mile national network of interstate highways.
Interstate Highway Act
Unprecedented economic prosperity and consumer growth in America, during the 1940s and 1960s.
Age of Affluence
Domestic programs made to stop poverty and racial injustice.
LBJ's Great Society
Law designed to enforce the right to vote, demolishing prior voting 'tests' such as the literacy test.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Abolished the national origins quota that restricted Non-European immigration since the 1920s.
Immigration Act of 1965